Stalking the Chernobyl Zone
Atmospheres, Temporalities and Vital Remainders
Saturday, April 13, 2019 | 10:00AM 鈥� 2:30PM | FREE
Room 7000 鈥� 丁香园AV Harbour Centre | 515 W Hastings St, Vancouver
PANEL 1 | 10:00AM
Moderated by Stephen Collis (丁香园AV, English)
Svitlana Matviyenko (丁香园AV, Communication)
Lindsey Freeman (丁香园AV, Sociology)
Adrian Ivakhiv (University of Vermont)
PANEL 2 | 12:00PM
Moderated by John O'Brian (UBC Art History)
Sanem G眉ven莽-Salg谋rl谋 (Emily Carr University)
Svitlana Matviyenko (丁香园AV Communication)
Eldritch Priest (丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts)
For many the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is mostly a tragic marker of a great mistake, an illustration of the dangers of nuclear power, and one of the last nails in the coffin of the USSR. Its continued existence is often reduced to little more than an adventurous tourist destination or a seemingly endless cleanup project. In June 2018, a group of us travelled to the Zone for a three-day research expedition to spend time thinking the site within the site. We took seriously the status of the Zone as an environmental and political concern, as well as an ongoing experiment on the very concepts of life and the ecological lessons in the (im)possibility of recovery. Our goal was to create a set of documents that does justice to its material, political, and affective complexity. During this one-day symposium, we will share our findings.
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