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ISBN-13: | 9780819580269 |
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Publisher: | Wesleyan University Press |
Publication date: | 06/01/2021 |
Pages: | 288 |
Product dimensions: | 8.40(w) x 11.40(h) x 1.10(d) |
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Table of Contents
Foreword • Time • "Going to Fukushima," Eiko Otake • PHOTOS 2014 Winter • "Being in Fukushima," Eiko Otake • PHOTOS 2014 Summer • "Red Silk Cloth," Eiko Otake • "Working with Eiko," William Johnston • PHOTOS 2016 • "Obituary of Hayashi Kyoko," Eiko Otake • PHOTOS 2017 • "Working with Fukushima Photographs," Eiko Otake • PHOTOS 2019 • "Changed Seashore," Eiko Otake • "Disasters Fast and Slow: History, Photography, and the Environment," William Johnston • Photos Five Places • "Movement, Time, Places," Eiko Otake • Maps • Timeline • AcknowledgmentsWhat People are Saying About This
"What would bring someone to travel thousands of miles to the still toxic site of a monumental disaster in order to perform in the evacuated silence for a camera? What are the ethical dimensions of such an act? What place does beauty have in the wake of massive trauma? Who has the right to speak, to dance, to situate themselves in places from which others were forcibly extracted? This book is a record of two significant, internationally-oriented artists as they struggle with such questions and resolve that, as Akira Kurosawa once said, 'To be an artist means never to look away.'"—Forrest Gander
"Otake and Johnston's stunning collaborative work will forever haunt us with a sense of belatedness. It compels us to consider the longue durée of 3.11 disaster and its connectedness to many losses, pain and the ongoing structural injustices in Fukushima and beyond."—Lisa Yoneyama, author of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory and award-winning Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes
"Oscillating across dance and photography, movement and stillness, poetry and prose, history and the everyday, anger and hope—a stunning testament to both the beauty and sadness of Fukushima."—Takashi Fujitani, Dr. David Chu, Professor of Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Toronto
"In this luminous record of bearing witness to post-nuclear catastrophe, testimony and poetry move together with William Johnston's pellucid photographs of movement artist Eiko Otake as she performatively embodies the irradiated landscapes of Fukushima. A Body in Fukushima is riveting, gorgeous, not to be forgotten."—Marilyn Ivy, author of Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, and Japan