artists of our community who made work related to our fission and fusion
topic are of course the vasulkas, the most well know are the brotherhood
works
about the work The Art of Memory vasulka states:
(Woody Vasulka) Nuclear history is an important theme of his project
"Art of Memory". This multi-media work is
"in a way dedicated to the Atomic era. It is kind of a recapitulation of the
first time I looked back at history, because
I was always looking forward to the future" (Woody Vasulka)
another work is The Brotherhood that uses recycled materials from los alamos
http://www.vasulka.org/Woody/Brotherhood/Brotherhood.html
from their web site
The Brotherhood is a dynamic spatial poem to the passions and pathos
of war. Fashioned from the broken "toys" and surplus of the
military-industrial complex (primarily Los Alamos and Sandia
Laboratories), these multimedia installations, Tables I-6, by Woody
Vasulka force us to face the raging conflict
seated in the human psyche toward the horror and futility of combat
They also worked with Tony Price,
an artist who made sculptures from waste materials (non radioactive)
from nuclear construction labs, info below
extract:
(Woody Vasulka) Nuclear history is an important theme of his project
"Art of Memory". This multi-media work is
"in a way dedicated to the Atomic era. It is kind of a recapitulation
of the first time I looked back at history, because
I was always looking forward to the future" (Woody Vasulka)
re tony price
Sound became an important element in much of Price's work as he discovered the
eternal tones emitted by the metals he was using. "What a great artist to take
an atomic bomb casing and turn it into a temple bell. That act alone is enough
to put him into the pantheon of great artists who have ever lived on
this planet". (Wavy Gravy)
Tony Price
http://oddobjects.info/article/180/swords-into-plowshares-tony-price
Tony Price (1937-2000), created sculptures from nuclear weapons salvagei
n the late 1960s, artist and counter-culture icon Tony Price settled
in New Mexico and discovered the Zia Salvage Yard
at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was inspired to use the
detritus of the world's most advanced
nuclear weapons program to create an art that spoke to Man's deeper
instinct for peace. With grace and wit
and brilliance he fashioned the forms of nuclear destruction into
icons of peace in an eloquent appeal for sanity and
survival. Out of the angry arsenals of terror, Price created weapons
of mass salvation and he called them Atomic Art.
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