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UmArts Director Ele Carpenter will give the keynote lecture on Nuclear Culture across the Hemispheres at the Barents Spektakel <\/a>Fesitival in Kirkenes in Norway. In this context local and Indigenous nuclear culture and storytelling is a way to deal with deep time pasts and futures, intergenerational knowledge, bodily witnessing and sensing. This talk is a series of propositions and stories. Please tell me more\u2026\u00a0 Are there stories that can be shared? where are they recorded or\u00a0 illlustrated? Whose isoptopes do we harbour? Which mastitis are prevalent?\u00a0 What kinds of mythology circulates? What is buried in the ice? Where are the sensors?\u00a0 What is buried under our feet?\u00a0 Whose techno-scientific fantasies? Whose knowledge, memories, cultures?\u00a0 How can we shift the paradigm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuclear technologies in the Arctic \/ Australia<\/strong> include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military use of indigenous lands:<\/strong> Woomera, Maralinga, plus in Australia. FOA (Jaure) in S\u00e1pmi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Testing:<\/strong> British nuclear tests on Maralinga, Montebello, Russian nuclear tests on Novaya Zemlya measured in S\u00e1pmi 1960s. Lost satellites \u2013 Canada, India, Antarctic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radioactive Contamination from Nuclear Power Plant accidents:<\/strong> Impact of Tjernobyl accident on reindeer and communities in S\u00e1pmi; Uranium mining in Australia and Arctic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuclear Submarines<\/strong>: Aukus agreement in Australia. British, American and Russian Submarines in the Arctic. Nuclear powered icebreakers in Arctic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuclear Techno-scientific Colonial Imaginaries<\/strong>: Atomize the Arctic \u2013 horrors of 1940s dreams of geo-engineering. Camp Century in Greenland. Australia new nuclear proposals: Subs, RWM, SMR\u2019s, GDF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UmArts Director Ele Carpenter will give the keynote lecture on Nuclear Culture across the hemispheres at the Barents Spektakel Fesitival in Kirkenes, Norway. In this context, Nuclear Culture is a way to deal with deep time pasts and futures, Intergenerational knowledge, bodily witnessing and sensing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1589,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174],"tags":[178,2,183,3,36],"people":[],"class_list":["post-1587","programme","type-programme","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lecture","tag-curatorial-research","tag-decolonisation","tag-displacement-hospitality","tag-nuclear-anthropocene","tag-the-commons"],"acf":{"related_svp":"","related_wg":[{"ID":913,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2024-04-24 18:21:49","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-24 16:21:49","post_content":"\n

The Nuclear Culture Research Group was established by Ele Carpenter in 2011. It is a network of artists, curators, and academics in the nuclear arts, humanities and sciences, as well as nuclear professionals, who share their work and opportunities around nuclear culture to develop new research partnerships. In this context the term \u2018nuclear culture\u2019 describes cultural activity investigating conceptual frameworks of the aesthetics of radiation and nuclear decoloniality though the visual, performing and media arts. The term \u2018nuclear\u2019 is used to describe the whole techno-scientific cycle from uranium mining, the military industrial complex, energy and the planned final geologic repositories. Group members have been involved in exhibitions, field research, publications and roundtable discussions investigating nuclear sites and artistic research questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nuclear Culture Research Group Email List<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The group has an jisc email list for sharing information, moderated by Gair Dunlop (DJCAD, University of Dundee) and Ele Carpenter (Ume\u00e5 University). The list includes 240 artists, scholars, culutral and nuclear professionals and aims to enhance research dialogues around curation, artistic production, collaboration with scientific colleagues and theory. If you would like to join \u2013 please sign up here: www.jiscmail.ac.uk\/NUCLEAR-CULTURE-RESEARCH-GROUP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RJ Sabbatical<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During 2024 Ele Carpenter is taking a Nuclear Culture Research Sabbatical supported by the RJ Sabbatical Fund to undertake field research in Italy and Australia. Her research will be focused on a new publication with the working title Planetary Nuclear Aesthetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Italy Ele is visiting the Nuclear Decomissioning team at the JRC in Ispra, to find out about how the European Union was built on the Euratom research partnerships and Italy's nuclear research program. In Australia she will be visiting the Northern Research Centre at the University of Darwin, and visiting artists Alex Ressel and Kerri Meehan with artists in Gunbalanya, Arnhem Land, Northern Territories of Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vetenskapr\u00e5det Exploratory Workshop <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During 2024 and 2025 Ele Carpenter is working with a small group of expert arts researchers in nuclear culture to undertake exploratory workshops to Geologic Repositories for the storage of high level radioactive waste in Onkalo in Finland and Forsmark in Sweden, support by the Swedish Research Council. Details below.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Nuclear Culture","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"nuclear-culture-research-group","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-07-14 12:05:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-07-14 10:05:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=working_group&p=913","menu_order":0,"post_type":"working_group","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"is_viewable_online":false,"is_playback_available":false,"programme_date_times":"20 Feb 2025","programme_location":"Kirkenes, Norway","label_for_repeating_events":"Gatherings","repeating_events":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programme\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programme"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/programme"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"people","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}