marion claire wasserman

The installation included 1 large projection, 2 i-pads, and 2 upright lights with digitally printed linen shade with images from the burnt trees of the Cerro Grande fire in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The lights have scannable QR codes with links to additional stories about the fire, Noam Chomsky's speech on war crimes, and the other videos of this project - intersecting the history from Hiroshima, Japan and the use of the nuclear bomb, the Los Alamos fire of 2010  and Wasserman's personal family history.
 

A trilogy created by Marion Wasserman and Louis Leray exploring themes of from Los Alamos New Mexico Cerro Grande fire, Hiroshima, and Wassermans personal history. The installation included a large screen video, two steel scultures with i-pads loops of different aspects of threat and understanding of the nuclear relationship between Los Alamos ( the birthplace of the atomic bomb) and Hiroshima, Japan  where is was used to annihilate. Also two free standing lights with printed linen images of the burnt trees in Los Alamos fire with QR codes linking to other aspects / reports on the fire, Noam Chomsky speech on war crimes, and a personal history of Wasserman whose grandmother was raised in Japan and whose daughter was born in Los Alamos.

ELLIPSIS | Louis Leray | Currents International New Media 2012 | © leray + wasserman 2012 | Duration: 00:03:37

Steel frame, 44"x12x12, linen printed light cover with QR codes