Wednesday, September 27, 2017

9/27/17 Hope Tucker

31 Years After Chernobyl: In Conversation with The
Obituary Project
Artist will be present.

American artist Hope Tucker transforms what we know as a daily form of narrative through THE OBITUARY PROJECT, a compendium of moving image that gives new life to the antiquated documentary practice of salvage ethnography. She has animated cyanotypes of downwinders and instructions for making fishing nets by hand; assembled archives of correspondence that document the impact of industry; photographed shuttered bread factories, fallen witness trees, and decaying civil rights era landmarks; recorded mobile phone footage of the last public phone booths of Finland; written the text of a video out of paper clips, a Norwegian symbol of nonviolent resistance; and, most recently, traced the path of protest that closed the only nuclear power plant in Austria.
Short Bio: American artist Hope Tucker transforms what we know as a
daily form of narrative through THE OBITUARY PROJECT, a compendium of
moving image that gives new life to the antiquated documentary practice
of salvage ethnography.  www.theobituaryproject.org