Workshop: Art after Fukushima: Imaginations of the Atomic Age in the Anthropocene
Workshop with four lectures by Gabrielle Decamous (Kyushu) on “Fukushima and Other Nuclear Disasters in the Arts”, Kyoko Iwaki (Antwerp) on “Ghostly Realism: Matsubara Shuntarō and Atmospheric Subjects”, Maria Stavrinaki (Lausanne) on “Bomb, Human Head: Remarks on a Post-atomic Pattern”, and Theresa Deichert (Heidelberg) on “Representing the Unreal: The Nuclear Uncanny in Masaharu Satō’s Fukushima Trace”, and responses by Vega Tescari (Mendrisio) and Lilian Kroth (Fribourg).
Concept & Organization: Toni Hildebrandt, SNSF Sinergia “Mediating the Ecological Imperative”, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art History, Institute of Art History, and Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, supported by the MVUB Grant at University of Bern.
Date: December 13, 2024, 9:30-13:30
Location: University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, room 324.