Making the Past: Prospective Memorialization and the Creation of Myth

Autor:	David Barrowclough
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Memorialization Visual Arts and Performing Arts Contemplation business.industry Communication media_common.quotation_subject Annales School Environmental ethics Mythology Nuclear power Visual arts Sociology Oral tradition business Construct (philosophy) media_common
Zdroj:	Visual Culture in Britain. 15:141-152
ISSN:	1941-8361 1471-4787
DOI:	10.1080/14714787.2014.930305
Popis:	This article explores how we might use artistic representations to protect future generations from the dangers inherent in the burial of radioactive waste, taking the work of artists Bryan McGovern Wilson and Robert Williams in Cumbria, north-west England, as a case study. Art has been a means of long-range communication since prehistoric times, and may be deliberately deployed to communicate with future generations. Contemplation of Wilson and Williams’s practice invites us to consider the longue duree of hundreds of thousands of years over which radiocarbon waste produced by nuclear power stations has to be stored safely away from humans. Adapting an Annales historical perspective, Cumbria’s archaeological past is interrogated for evidence of how we might construct monuments that communicate the presence of nuclear waste depositories to future generations. This in turn, and prompted by Wilson’s performance works, invites us to consider whether oral tradition and performance might serve better as a warni...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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