Revisiting Fukushima: responses to an ongoing disaster
I visited Fukushima in 2014. Fukushima. The word – like Chernobyl or Three Mile Island – is synonymous with nuclear
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The active role for culture in a divided nation
A surprising number of people have said to me lately that they don’t know any Leave supporters at all. So I
Words and Money: discussions on art, ethics & value
I’ve been at a couple of conferences recently in London that were responding to rising concern about the ways the
Nuclear culture in Japan. Pt 2: Road trip through Fukushima exclusion zone
After my lecture at the Actinium nuclear forum in Sapporo, a group of us (Arts Catalyst team and artists with
Nuclear culture in Japan. Part 1: Actinium programme, Sapporo, Hokkaido
I’ve been in Japan for Arts Catalyst’s Actinium exhibition and forum, part of an ongoing partnership between The Arts Catalyst
Dispatches from the Republic of the Moon
An artist hand-rears a flock of moon geese as future astronauts; a man meets the moon and stays with her
Peace and outer space: the role of artists and developing countries
I’ve just returned from the enormously successful KOSMICA Mexico 2013 in Mexico City, organised by Nahum Mantra, Laboratorio Arte Alameda and
Fracking futures – HeHe’s experimental drilling cuts out the middle man
As David Koch – the wealthy industrialist whose company is responsible for the dumping of a three-storey high city block
Some responses to War at the speed of light …
A couple of recent interesting blog posts have picked up on my War at the Speed of Light: artists and drone
Ruins, conflict, culture and science: dOCUMENTA (13)
Many adjectives have already been wielded to describe this year’s documenta, “earnest”, “grim”, “despondent” and “concept-less” among them. Certainly, there
2012: autonomous infrastructures, uneasy energies, and the machine wilderness …
Yahoo. 2012! What’s coming up this year in the art/science world? Here’s a highly subjective list of things I’m looking
Realities and dreams: Africa in space
Today is the last day of the 62nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Cape Town, South Africa. The IAC is
Power in outer space
Yesterday, I was one of the speakers at the Power in Outer Space symposium at the University of Brighton. The
Science diplomacy 1: International cooperation to neo-functionalism
This week I’ve been at the Royal Society’s international meeting on science diplomacy. What is science diplomacy? Most people here seem
Handy tips for the new nuclear age (1)
With the UK government’s new commitment to nuclear energy, let’s re-visit some of those old recurring debates around clean energy, safety,
Nicola Triscott 