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The Otolith Group | dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany

Posted On:Thursday, June 6th, 2013 | by project88newsadmin

The Otolith Group
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
6 June- 19 September 2012

The Otolith Group, The Radiant, 2012

The Otolith Group’s new film The Radiant explores the aftermath of March 11 2011, when the Great Tohoku Earthquake struck the North East Coast of Japan at 2.46pm, triggering a tsunami that killed tens of thousands and causing the partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the fissures opened by these catastrophes, The Radiant travels through time and space, invoking the historical promise of nuclear energy and summoning the future threat of radiation that converge upon the benighted present.