How Japan's 2011 Earthquake Fractured Visual Perception
The article examines how the March 11, 2011 earthquake and subsequent nuclear disaster in Japan created a rupture in visual culture. It situates this catastrophe within a 20th-century history of major Japanese disasters that caused temporal and epistemological breaks. The text questions how images have been affected by this newly fractured world and heightened vulnerability, analyzing artistic responses to the disaster. The piece appears in artpress issue 423, published June 2015, pages 67-71.
Key facts
- March 11, 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan
- Disaster seen as part of 20th-century Japanese catastrophe continuum
- Event caused temporal caesura and epistemological rupture
- Article explores impact on images and visual perception
- Published in artpress n°423, June 2015, pp. 67-71
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- artpress
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- Japan
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