Don't Follow the Wind by Nikolaus Hirsch - ISBN: 9783956795688
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Invisible art blooms in Fukushima’s radioactive zone, awaiting our return.

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    256 pages

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    21 September 2021

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Summary

The twelfth volume of the Critical Spatial Practices series focuses on “Don’t Follow the Wind,” the acclaimed collaborative project situated in Fukushima’s radioactive exclusion zone. The book explores the long-term environmental crisis in the coastal Japanese region through this ongoing, inaccessible exhibition, which maintains traces of human presence amid the fallout of the March 2011 nuclear reactor meltdown that displaced entire towns. What can art do in a continuing catastrophe when des…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783956795688
ISBN-10:3956795687
Author:Nikolaus Hirsch, Jason Waite
Publisher:Sternberg Press
Imprint:Sternberg Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:21 September 2021
Weight:369g
Dimensions:152mm x 102mm
Series:Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice
About The Author

Nikolaus Hirsch

Nikolaus Hirsch is an architect, curator, editor, and educator. He is the director of CIVA in Brussels and was the Dean of St delschule and Director of Portikus in Frankfurt. He is the author of the books On Boundaries (2007), Institution Building (2009), Cybermohalla Hub (2012), and co-editor of the Critical Spatial Practice series at Sternberg Press and co-founder of e-flux architecture.

Jason Waite is an independent curator and cultural worker focused on forms of practice producing agency, and has recently been working in sites of crisis amidst the detritus of capitalism, looking for tools and radical imaginaries for different ways of living and working together. He holds an M.A. in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths College, London and was a 2012-2013 Helen Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Oxford in the Ruskin School of Art and Christ Church.

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