The Nuclear Culture Source Book

The Nuclear Culture Source Book serves as an excellent resource and introduction to nuclear culture as one of the most prominent themes within contemporary art and society, exploring the diverse ways in which post-Fukushima society has influenced artistic and cultural production. The book brings together a wide-ranging collection of material from artists and writers working within the scope of nuclear culture internationally, including works by renowned practitioners such as Lise Autogena, Thomson & Craighead, Crowe & Rawlinson, David Mabb, Katsuhiro Miyamoto, Kota Takeuchi and Chim-Pom.

Building on four years of research into nuclear culture by the book’s editor, Ele Carpenter,The Nuclear Culture Source Book features contributions by over 60 artists including spectacular imagery of nuclear sites taken on artist field trips, from underground research laboratories in Japan to the Faslane Trident base. Contextualising this is a series of essays by international arts and humanities scholars and writers including: Timothy Morton writing on radiation as a hyperobject; Peter C van Wyck on the nuclear anthropocene; Kodwo Eshun and Noi Sarawagi on Fukushima; and Susan Schuppli on nuclear materiality.

Published in partnership with Bildmuseet, Sweden and Arts Catalyst, London.

Peter C Van Wyck: Professor, Communication Studies at Concordia University
Susan Schuppli: Deputy Director & Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University, London
Daniel Grausam: Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Durham University.
Ele Carpenter: Ele Carpenter is a curator, writer and researcher in politicised art and social networks of making at Goldsmiths University, London. Her creative and curatorial practice responds to specific socio-political cultural contexts in collaboration with individuals, groups and organisations.