A Minor Event in the History of Atomic Timekeeping

Lecture performance · slideshow · sound · ~25 min ·
2024

In this performative lecture, Juan Arturo García presents his research project about the surprising discovery of a nuclear reactor in the heart of Bogotá, Colombia.

Attuning to radioactivity and earthquakes, García explores the paradoxes of inaccessible phenomena such as time and the way it is measured and perceived. Taking up a poetics of displacement, he also taps into the present cultural, mystical, and political consequences of technological deployments along the Andes mountain range – a region characterised by near-constant seismic activity.

A complementary photo essay titled «The Slow Art of Getting to Know a Place in Space», was published in Ecoes #6, a magazine that explores the web of relations – experienced and perceived through the ‘sensuous body’ – that evoke our rootedness in the larger ecology of earth beings.

A MINOR EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF ATOMIC TIME-KEEPING
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