Don't Follow The Wind: Non-Visitor Center
Beyond the threshold of the inhabitable, how does culture contest the crippling effects of long term catastrophe? Don鈥檛 Follow the Wind is a project situated inside the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan, the inaccessible area surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, established in the wake of the 2011 disaster that contaminated the environment separating residents from their homes, land, and community. As radiation knows no borders, transported on wind and water currents, it is a form of contamination that implicates us all in its unseen isotopic presence.
Don鈥檛 Follow the Wind consists, in one part, of an exhibition opened on March 11, 2015鈥攖he fourth anniversary of the ongoing nuclear meltdown. This collective project includes twelve on-site artworks in Fukushima developed by artists Ai Weiwei, Chim鈫慞om, Grand Guignol Mirai, Nikolaus Hirsch and Jorge Otero-Pailos, Meiro Koizumi, Eva and Franco Mattes, Aiko Miyanaga, Ahmet 脰臒眉t, Trevor Paglen, Taryn Simon, Nobuaki Takekawa and Kota Takeuchi in homes and buildings lent by displaced residents. To this day the area is still closed due to the environmental contamination.
As the exclusion zone remains inaccessible to the public, the exhibition in Fukushima is ongoing but largely invisible鈥攁 condition akin to radiation itself鈥攐nly to be viewed in the future, if and when it becomes safe once again for the residents to return. The exhibition opened in 2015, but there is no clear timeline for public access to these sites, perhaps three years, ten years, or decades鈥攁 period of time that could stretch beyond our lifetime.
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Beyond the threshold of the inhabitable, how does culture contest the crippling effects of long term catastrophe? Don鈥檛 Follow the Wind is a project situated inside the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan, the inaccessible area surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, established in the wake of the 2011 disaster that contaminated the environment separating residents from their homes, land, and community. As radiation knows no borders, transported on wind and water currents, it is a form of contamination that implicates us all in its unseen isotopic presence.
Don鈥檛 Follow the Wind consists, in one part, of an exhibition opened on March 11, 2015鈥攖he fourth anniversary of the ongoing nuclear meltdown. This collective project includes twelve on-site artworks in Fukushima developed by artists Ai Weiwei, Chim鈫慞om, Grand Guignol Mirai, Nikolaus Hirsch and Jorge Otero-Pailos, Meiro Koizumi, Eva and Franco Mattes, Aiko Miyanaga, Ahmet 脰臒眉t, Trevor Paglen, Taryn Simon, Nobuaki Takekawa and Kota Takeuchi in homes and buildings lent by displaced residents. To this day the area is still closed due to the environmental contamination.
As the exclusion zone remains inaccessible to the public, the exhibition in Fukushima is ongoing but largely invisible鈥攁 condition akin to radiation itself鈥攐nly to be viewed in the future, if and when it becomes safe once again for the residents to return. The exhibition opened in 2015, but there is no clear timeline for public access to these sites, perhaps three years, ten years, or decades鈥攁 period of time that could stretch beyond our lifetime.
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