The Emergency Has Been Everyday is the siren song of our radiated cities. Sounds from an array of conceptual core samples beckon the viewer to apprehend the unstable and often untrue strata we stand upon. Through the familiarity of science, bound and discordant cylinders position a metaphor highlighting the mismanagement of nuclear waste; the non-consensual testing of radioactive materials; and the forceful displacement of people’s vitality — a half-life of places we call home. Within these layers lies a series of buried narratives. Resolana, a collective based in San Francisco, CA, presents a parallel between their home and Carlsbad, NM. Permeating, proliferating, transmitting, these artists propose a sentinel that rings an alarm in the wake of dreams, comfort, security, and capitalism.
Mixed media installation exhibited at: The Emergency Has Been Everyday, Diego Rivera Gallery, SF, CA (2018); Ojalá group exhibition curated by Atomic Culture at Carlsbad Museum of Art, NM (2018); and curated into the Special Projects exhibition at Untitled Art Fair SF, CA (2019).
Collaborating Artists (2018-2019): Yang Bao, Henry Chambers, Giuliana Funkhouser, Abby Gregg, Gigja Jonsdottir, Steph Kudisch, Kate Laster, Eliza Phelan-Harder, Elen Padrón Martín, Sherwin Rio, Bertha Rodriguez, Mika Sperling, Yuntong Wu, Yourong Zhao.
Photographed by Cristóbal Martínez