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Vibrations of 11 March 2011 in Japan’s Performance Scene

Yamakawa Fuyuki and the Sound of Radioactivity

Katja Centonze    Universität Trier, Deutschland; Waseda University, Japan    

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This article discusses the strong resonance provoked by the 2011 triple disaster in the Japanese performance and visual arts by focusing on multimedia artist Yamakawa Fuyuki and the antinuclear activist network’s intersection with the underground music scene. Directly plugging into the disaster, Yamakawa re-elaborated his artistic practice in relation to the nuclear crisis by addressing internal and external exposure to radiation. Illustrated are connections between polluted environment, corporeality, politics and performance art, and how his performative experimentations offer novel insights into the interaction between art and disaster enhancing alternative modes of interpretation in technoscience and aesthetic theory.

Pubblicato
07 Novembre 2018
Accettato
18 Settembre 2018
Presentato
20 Agosto 2018
Lingua
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-289-5
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-264-2

Keywords: Acoustic corporeality • Seismic ambient noise • Japanese underground music • Performance art and disaster • Antinuclear protest

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-264-2/006

Copyright: © 2018 Katja Centonze. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.