Anna Volkmar – Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate
#1 min Tea Záchová
5. 12. 2023
After twelve years, the Fukushima nuclear plant is about to release its radioactive waste through a special tunnel into the ocean. Nobody knows what the effects on the local ecosystem will be. Anna Wolkmar does not hesitate and starts with two unanswerable questions right at the beginning: Why do artists feel a need to respond to the Fukushima nuclear disaster? Fukushima became an impulse for a reconsideration of the role of art in a wider context. The study refers to Deleuze’s understanding of interdisciplinarity, which Volkmar tries to grasp methodologically. Everyone is fascinated by nuclear power but few truly understand it. She decodes this inherent complexity in four main chapters through interpretations of contemporary visual art and, by using practical examples, she shows how art can propose ways of pointing at difficult questions. The final chapter, How to take care of nuclear waste? thus demonstrates the current state of things. The important question of today emerges: What are we providing to the generations that will come in three thousand years?
Anna Volkmar. Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate. London: Lexington Books, 2022. ISBN 9781666900224.
Tea Záchová
#2 min Fotograf Zone
FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2025 – TALK TOGETHER
The fifteenth edition of the international Fotograf Zone Festival, titled TALK TOGETHER, focuses on language and interpersonal communication in its many forms. This year’s festival will be presented in a condensed ten-day format, running from 3 to 12 October 2025, and will offer audiences new perspectives on how language shapes our relationships, understanding, and conflicts.
#2 min Natalie Drtinová, Dorota Franková
Dorota Franková – Tenderness and Pain of Dorota Franková’s Portraits
In her work, Dorota Franková focuses on portraiture. While the portraits of others tend to be full of tenderness and fragility, her own are captured in exacerbated situations or via manipulated photographs that emphasise the restlessness of the mind.
#1 min Tea Záchová
Maja and Reuben Fowkes – World of Art / Art and Climate Change
#1 min Tea Záchová
Katy Hessel – Story of Art (Without Men)
#1 min Tea Záchová
Boaz Levin, Esther Ruelfs – Mining Photography / The Ecological Footprint of Image Production
#1 min Tea Záchová
Darja Lukhanenko – How to make rockets disappear?
#3 min Polina Davydenko, Tea Záchová
Polina Davydenko – Cosmoses of Justice and Ordinariness
Laziness, dissatisfaction, voyeurism, irony, human and extra-social energy and its phenomena that accompany us in today's hot days are important spices used by author Polina Davydenko. She sprinkles this spice on the main characteristics of her works about the quite common but important topic of home.
#3 min Tea Záchová, Julie Béna
Julie Béna – Like the Moon in the Sun is my Shadow
Associative visual games characterize French artist Julie Béna as an artist who uses a refined language to bridge two words – ambiguities transform unbounded speculations, thus creating a hibernating indeterminacy of reading. Essential to her work is the open concept of two realities that can interpenetrate within a particular choreography and scenography.