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Japan’s nuclear disaster inspires artwork – Uranium Glasswork (Video)

02 October 2012

The environmental devastation caused by Japan’s nuclear disaster has inspired two artists to create artworks that are themselves radioactive.

Source: 7pm TV News NSW | Duration: 2min 7sec

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-02/japans-nuclear-disaster-inspires-artwork/4292006?section=entertainment

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Ken + Julia Yonetani are collaborative artists who work in the field of sculptural installation, video, and performance art. They have exhibited together at NKV, Germany, GV Art, London, and throughout Australia including 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Artereal Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, RMIT Gallery, Palimpsest and La Trobe University Museum of Art. In 2011-12 they conducted residencies in Finland and Portugal, funded by the Kone Foundation and Australia Council for the Arts. In 2010, they staged a bed-in performance in Federation Square, Melbourne, and conducted a Synapse Residency in Mildura.

Ken was born in Tokyo, Japan. He received a Bachelor of Economics in Japan and worked in the Foreign Exchange Market in Tokyo for three years. Following this, he was an assistant for pottery master, Toshio Kinjo, oldest son of Jiro Kinjo, National Living Treasure of Japan. He completed his M.A. at the Australian National University School of Art in 2005. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, and in 2009 represented Australia at the 53rd Venice Bienniale. 

Julia holds a PhD from the Australian National University. She has held positions lecturing in History, Cultural Studies, and Contemporary Art at the University of New South Wales, Western Sydney University and the University of the Ryukyus, Japan, and has published work in various media in English and Japanese. She has been involved in various environmental movements and represented Okinawan environmental groups at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Amman, Jordan in 2000

 

http://www.kenandjuliayonetani.com/contents.html

 

October 2, 2012 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized