Posts Tagged ‘ Fukushima ’
2. Gogendo, Namie
An abandoned house in Namie. Because Namie is within 20km of the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the decontamination of most houses is not possible. Therefore, the residents have not returned since 2011. Gogendo, Namie. 2019.
3-1=1 on KyeongJun Yang
Source: 3-1=1 – KyeongJun Yang
When the world’s first atomic weapon exploded in New Mexico in July 1945, the energy from the blast formed a new mineral called trinitite from the desert sand. For his 2015 Trinity Cube project, artist Trevor Paglen took irradiated glass gathered from the area around where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster occurred in 2011 and combined it with trinitite to form a blue cube. He then installed the cube in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone to continue to be irradiated.
The artwork will be viewable by the public when the Exclusion Zone opens again, anytime between 3 and 30,000 years from the present.
Source: The Trinity Cube
Of her decision to render the tsunami female, Roripaugh, who is poet laureate of South Dakota and editor-in-chief of the South Dakota Review, said, in a recent interview with Frontier Poetry, “nature […] is traditionally read as feminine, or female, and — much like women’s bodies — is a contested space that is endlessly erased, silenced, controlled, legislated, and colonized.”
Source: Ghost or Not: On Lee Ann Roripaugh’s “tsunami vs. the fukushima 50” – Los Angeles Review of Books
March 2019 Update
A team of IAEA experts check out water storage tanks TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on November 27, 2013. The expert team was assessing Japanese efforts to decommission the stricken nuclear power plant.
Photo: Greg Webb / IAEA, Flickr.com CC.
Ryuichi Sakamoto: My friend, a very young Japanese artist called Soichiro Mihara, after Fukushima he created a very beautiful piece [Bell, 2013] related to radioactivity. He modified Japanese traditional furin—furin is wind chime in Japanese—but in his piece, the wind chime does not pick up wind but radioactivity. Passing the radioactive particles, it will ring. So I think that’s the best piece after Fukushima.
Figure 1. Junji Ito. Horror-Manga image, “the irradiating eye”
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Hey, poet. You, mankind.
In this disaster, what did you see?
Did you see the man who lost his family, lost his home, lost his hometown, lost Japan—did you see his fist wiping away his tears?
Did you see the terrifying face of radiation? The profile?
Did you see the man, his hometown lost, Japan lost, nestling his cheek upon the cow he’s raised, crying.
Shrinking from the once-familiar breeze and earth,
did you stare into the sandbox where no one is playing?
Did you see the walnut tree, which was cut down
because people feared an aftershock would topple it?
Can your poems recover the lost families, homes, hometowns, Japan? Can they comfort the man wiping his tears, his fist wiping them away, his hometown lost to him, Japan lost to him, the man crying and nestling his cheek on his cherished cow? Can they restore the once-familiar breeze and earth? Can they bring back the children to the sandbox?
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The Environment Ministry demonstrates an experiment on recycling contaminated soil, shown in black in the center, in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 17. (Masatoshi Toda)
Source: Ministry shows plan to recycle radioactive soil in Fukushima：The Asahi Shimbun
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