“I have been thinking about nuclear culture through the lens of contemporary art and curatorial practice for over five years, becoming particularly interested in what they (art and the curatorial) can offer up in terms of ways to provide insight into or further understand the slow, violent, leaky, messy, amorphous, ubiquitous and ongoing stories of the nuclear.”
Warren Harper
Warren Harper (he/him) is a curator and researcher currently based in Toronto, Canada. He is a PhD researcher a Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is working on a curatorial research project exploring Essex’s role in Britain’s nuclear story. He was director at The Old Waterworks (TOW), an artist-led charity in Essex, UK, that provides studios, facilities, and research and development opportunities for artists. Warren is also a board member of The Other MA (TOMA) and a supporter and member of the Working Class Creatives Database, which is a platform to share and highlight the work of working class creatives. Warren has worked with and held positions at various galleries and institutions across the UK, Canada and the US including MOCA Toronto, OCAD University, CARA, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Whitstable Biennale and South London Gallery.
“Rather than a singular, verifiable truth, we understand the production of knowledge as occurring through a series of encounters. For this issue, we extended an open invitation to seven contributors to respond to the themes of art, archives and the environment.”
