Nuclear Histories and Protest Movements

Nuclear Histories and Protest Movements is discursive evening with a roundtable conversation with Kamila Smagulova, Fabienne Rachmadiev, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou and Äsel Kadyrkhanova on the role of art and culture in anti-nuclear resistance and solidarity movements followed by the performance lecture Xiren by Yeon Sung. This event is presented in collaboration with Sonic Acts as part of the exhibition Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities.

Xiren is a multidisciplinary project that develops a DIY siren instrument as a performative tool to signal the slow violence of radioactive Saharan dust carried from the Algerian desert to Europe. The lecture performance presents research that shows how the dust is not only a meteorological phenomenon but a material witness to the enduring effects of nuclear colonialism. Through a 30-minute live presentation with moving images and sound, it brings together maps, satellite data, archival imagery, and footage from field research in La Hague, France. Throughout, Sung intertwines spoken narrative with sonic elements, gradually building a sensory environment that mirrors the circulation of radioactive dust. In the final sequence, the prototype mechanical siren Xiren ver.0 – powered solely by air and rotation – is activated, turning the project’s central metaphor into a physical and auditory experience.

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Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.