FUNKENZUFLAMMEN „ABA 10+1 years artists research”
 

A book edited by Susanne Kriemann and Aleksander Komarov, designed by Tobias Wenig, published by Spector Books, 360 p, over 200 images, edition 500.

“Perhaps this book holds a place in a room, or in the text of another book; perhaps it is in the sound of radio tunes, or in the pc-mouse’s clicking through a blog. It rests for a moment, in between certainty and wonder, to encounter anew what has been edited over ten years; where one’s own voice challenges the noise of the city, where our good friend, the night, pioneered the sun, and sparks turned into flames “
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10% Concerning the Image Archive of a Nuclear Research Center,
Edited by Susanne Kriemann, Judith Milz, Friederike Schäfer, Klaus Nippert, Elke Leinenweber, designed by Moritz Appich and Cécile Kobel

Unknown lady in the radiation protection department, puddle, dancing couple in costume, damage to a waste drum, retiree send-off, lead shielding, burnt-out glovebox, scorpion with microchip—these are all captions to photographs of Germany’s first major nuclear research facility. In 1957, professional photographers began to make an on-site record of procedures at the Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (KfK, Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center). In 2017, the decision was made to digitize ten percent of this image archive. Based on current concerns regarding the whereabouts of contaminated nuclear waste, the publication brings together over thirty perspectives from the fields of art, sociology, politics, and science as well as accounts of people who were directly involved with the facility. “10%. Concerning the Image Archive of a Nuclear Research Center” sets out to delineate and visualize the afterlife of nuclear research.
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Susanne Kriemann, Ge(ssenwiese), K(anigsberg) – Library for Radioactive Afterlife, edited by Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch, published by Spector Books, Leipzig Design by Alix Linn Bouteleux, typefaces by Catharina Grözinger, Radim Pesko 16 x 24 cm, 196 pages, color and black/white images, hardcover, April 2020, English, ISBN: 9783959053365

Gessenwiese and Kanigsberg form part of a landscape that has been in a process of constant change since 1946. The overburden from the mining industry created radioactive spoil heaps and lakes that are being rehabilitated by various means: plants growing on Gessenwiese accumulate contaminants from the soil. Textiles are used to slowly dry out the lakes and bind the radioactive dust. The banked mounds are returned to the earth bit by bit. These continual changes to the volumes in the landscape and their afterlife are the conceptual starting point for Ge(ssenwiese) K(anigsberg), Library for radioactive afterlife. In recent years, Susanne Kriemann has developed a radically expanded idea of photography that investigates new systems for registering events and geological periods.
 

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Susanne Kriemann, MNGRV (polymersday) & MNGRV (nylonsnoon)
Edition of 100 each, self-published, designed by Dongyoung Lee,
with text excerpts by Natasha Ginwala & Vivian Ziherl, and Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, 2020

Mngrv adds a new plant species to the botanical [removed]; Mngrv emerged in South and South East Asia, where mangroves’ rhizomatic roots, always exposed to the rhythm of the tides, get entangled with fishnets, plastic waste, and oil [removed];Mngrv explores how in times of climate change and environmental pollution the borders between nature and culture, plant and plastic, increasingly blur. Susanne Kriemann imprinted the photographs she took during field research in Sri Lanka and Indonesia with the plastic waste she found on location, using a chunk of raw oil picked in the water as her pigment.

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