Abstract
Aurora Del Rio’s artistic research considers how myth and belief interfere with the creation of personal and collective realities, with a focus on radioactive contamination. The video installation looks at radioactive inheritance as a dangerous gift, following the German meaning of the word Gift as poison. Developed departing from conversations on the possible
meaning of gift-giving and receiving concerning the construction of a deep repository for nuclear waste storage in Finland, the artwork aims at both exploring and challenging this idea. The images generated from the conversation, themselves also a given and received gift, became possible future rituals.
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meaning of gift-giving and receiving concerning the construction of a deep repository for nuclear waste storage in Finland, the artwork aims at both exploring and challenging this idea. The images generated from the conversation, themselves also a given and received gift, became possible future rituals.
The information on artistic outputs in the Aalto Research Portal follows the reporting guidelines of Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture. Therefore, each contribution requiring independent artistic activity is reported separately. For full details of the work and its contributors, please refer to information provided by the publisher.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Helsinki, Finland |
| Publisher | University of Tampere |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| MoE publication type | F2 Partial implementation of a work of art or performance |
| Event | Gifts/Presents/Presence - Meanings and Materialities - Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland Duration: 6 Jun 2024 → 15 Jul 2024 https://gppce.info/program-exhibition |
Field of art
- Contemporary art
- Film