Bournemouth University’s (BU) Associate Professor, artist and practice-based researcher Neal White is travelling to Washington DC for 1×1; an art project commemorating victims of the tsunami that hit Japan one year ago.
The exhibition is organised by London based art and research organization, the Office of Experiments, which is led by Neal.
The project sees 1000 vials of symbolic tears being used to water the 3000 Cherry Trees donated to Washington DC by Tokyo 100 years ago.
Neal said: “Tsunamis know no national borders, any more than oceans know their names, or radiation can be contained from the flow of water, filtered from the rain, cleaned from the sea or plied from our tears. How can people forget, how can culture respond or science calculate and society mitigate for the events of one year ago, a tragedy that will unfold through time and space beyond the confines of Japan’s national borders to affect and touch us all.”
Pictured: ‘Spillage’ - Detail of limited edition embossed print by Tina O’Connell.
