Etsuko Ichikawa will talk about her recent body of work, VITRIFIED, in which she uses uranium glass as a key element in her sculpture, installation, film, and photography. This particular choice of material relates to a shift in her personal values that occurred after the devastating 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown in her home country of Japan. During the lecture, she plans to share a few short clips from her films including, Echo at Satsop, which was filmed entirely inside the cooling tower at Satsop—an abandoned nuclear power plant in Elma, WA.
Etsuko is a Tokyo-born, U.S. based multi-media artist, filmmaker, and activist. She is currently traveling nomadically around the globe with her art residencies.
Photo Credit: Lincoln Potter
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