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Exclusion Zones Susanne Kriemann and Eva Wilson

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O sun, you middle- This was long before inception is effectively aged star. For the past organisms developed indistinguishable. 4.567 billion years, you the ability to break down The vast majority of have been embroiled in cellulose, which eventu- energy consumed on a process of continuous ally prevented organic Earth, however, is solar, nuclear reaction—one that remains from sinking stellar, as is the basis for will continue for about the deeper toward the Earth’s the chemical reaction same length of time, until core and fossilizing. that caused the mass the hydrogen fusion in extinctions of the Great your core has diminished, My coevals: we will never Oxygenation Event your outer layers expand, become fossils. (GOE) that initiated our and you swell to become current oxygen-based a Red Giant, and, in the Today, the mechanics ecosphere. The spec- process, swallow the plan- of extraction produced tral range of solar light ets closest to you, includ- under the rule of a con- visible to humans ap- ing, most likely, Earth. sumptive economy have proximately matches the excavated and brought range of photosyntheti- The sun’s radiation, the to light—to the same cally active radiation. Our symptom of its entropic nuclear light that formed eye responds to stimu- decay, is the source not them—the coal and oil lation by electromag- only of life, but also of and gas whose combus- netic radiation within this time on Earth. Spiralling tion sustains (and endan- spectrum as perception around our ageing star, gers) life on Earth. We of colour, while a plant’s we measure our lives live in a global economy pigments are able to in revolutions. Another of the sun, commodi- convert it into chemical ten or twenty revolu- ties’ creation running energy, releasing oxygen tions from now, fossil on radiation, burning up as a waste product: as fuels will be diminished time, millions of years, in the air that we breath, and spent to the point a century. but also as a toxic pol- of exhaustion. For the luter for the now extinct past few hundred million Nuclear reactor fuels pre-GOE organisms. Un- years, these fossils have have no solar source. derground, where there harboured the energy of They are the product is no light, colour does our sun deep under the of several supernovae, not exist. pressure of the Earth’s the input of explosive mantle and in the heat debris of Earth’s progeni- Some photosensitive of its core. These are the tor stars at the time of carriers can record radia- sediments of prehistoric the planet’s formation. tion beyond the limits of organic matter that at Whether the origin of the visible spectrum: this one time basked in the radioactive energy is is how the artist Susanne spectral range of light extraterrestrial, or rather Kriemann was able to re- that facil­itates photo- forms the core of the cord autoradiographs of synthesis (between 400 planet itself, its astro- radioactive uranium from and 700 nanometres). nomical make-up and within a darkroom in a

Kriemann & Wilson — 6 Kriemann & Wilson — 7 laboratory at the Ameri- in the Ore Mountains in ecosphere of the fields human consumption of carried great distances spans an epic transna- can Museum of Natural Thuringia and Saxony surrounding the mines groundwater, soil, and by the wind, reaching tional industrial circum- History in New York. in Germany as early as operated by the now air from the area will not the doors and windows ference, entangling stone Some of the first do- the fifteenth century. defunct mining company be possible for another of most of the taxpayers coal from Columbia, simeters—personal film At the time, the leady, SDAG Wismut (a Soviet- 100,000 years. who contributed to the Congolese coltan, Mon- badges used to monitor fatty black substance was German stock company) And yet nature here has 6 billion euros spent on golian europium, numer- cumulative radiation dos- deemed worthless and in the Ore Mountains of resumed its wild prolif- remediation processes ous other raw materials, es—were developed after only retrieved from mine the former GDR. Krie- erations. Oblivious local to date. and countless hours of scientists of the Manhat- dumps when its oxidized mann in turn was col- livestock continues to global labour, wrapped tan Project realized that colours were discovered lecting the contaminated ruminate the fresh grass Kriemann’s work Falsche- up in the complex theol- photographic film stored as useful in the produc- plants in order to use that grows on fields just Kamille, Wilde Möhre, Bit- ogy emanating from the near to radioactive ma- tion of olive-green, grey, them in her photograms. beyond the confines of terkraut (Zyklus I) (2016) heliocentre’s heart at terials had been exposed and ochre pigments. Apart from uranium, the the exclusion zone— consists of photograms 1 Infinite Loop, Cuper- (in both senses). The Painters in the seven- soil and vegetation from boundaries that are the of plants harvested in tino, California. image conjured from the teenth and eighteenth the former mining areas consequence of policies September 2016 from film indicated invisible centuries used concoc- contain traces of lantha- that choose to ignore the Gessenwiese. Back Printed captions accom- gamma rays, X-rays, and tions of oxidized urani- num, ittrium, gadolinium, the expansive nature of in her darkened studio, pany the final images. beta particles that were nite mixed with fresh- lead, copper, aluminum, industrial contamination Kriemann placed the Rather than functioning shooting through the egg tempera or oil made argentum, vanadium, and in favour of a fictional crop on photosensi- as a detached element, labs, through the scien- from local walnut crops other heavy metals and reality geared toward tive paper, weighted the the captions act as an in- tists, and through time. to produce paintings that rare earth elements. the doctrine of Strahlen- corners down with books herent component of the are radioactively contam- The long history of schutz (radiation protec- that were at hand (issues work, framed together Uranium-235 has a half- inated: look at them and extraction and global tion). The two monumen- of Camera Austria, After- with the photographs. life of 703.8 million years. they will look back at you, dissemination of natural tal cone-shaped slag all, and Texte zur Kunst, Like much of Kriemann’s Caesium-137’s half-life is not by means of the re- resources from the area piles of mining waste that Jonathan Crary’s 24/7, work, Falsche Kamille, approximately 30 years. fracted sunlight glisten- ended abruptly in 1990 for years dominated the and an Agatha Christie Wilde Möhre, Bitterkraut Both isotopes are in a ing off their varnish in all with the collapse of the horizon near Ronneburg novel), and exposed the operates in the fields state of constant insta- the colours of the visible nation states whose ter- as man-made Alps (“Alp” image by using the LED of photography and the bility, decaying continu- spectral range, but by ritorial and exterritorial also meaning “night- flashlight of her smart archive and their rela- ously into more stable el- the stealthy emanation claims to the land evapo- mare” in German) were phone. For a brief instant, tionship to time, and yet ements. At the end of its of their own energies, rated with them. Agricul- removed to make way for the rare earth minerals the work also tugs at the long process of entropy, radiating not just to your ture in the densely popu- the Bundesgartenschau— inside her mobile device temporal fabric of text. uranium becomes lead— eyes, but through your lated Wismut area has the German federal horti- illuminated the har- The paper caption sheets an element that, in an- clothes, your hair—and now made way for risky culture show of 2007. The vested plants and their contain the botanical other time, made up the all the cells of your body. recreation grounds, and current Wismut GmbH, sister elements, thereby denominations of the type metal that produced harvesting and extraction the federal successor of exposing the photosensi- plant matter and the typographic print. In 2016, Susanne Krie- on the Gessen­wiese test the old SDAG, is currently tive paper. Charged with geographical locations Uraninite, or pitch- mann joined a group of field in in East Thuringia remediating 570 hectares a mixture of electricity and dates of the finding blende, is a radioactive researchers: geologists today serves the sole of sludge ponds con- generated mostly from and harvest, as well as mineral and ore that and biologists from purpose of attempting taining the tailings from coal, along with nuclear lists of heavy metals and can be used to recover the University of Jena to protect animals and the uranium refinement and renewable sources, other elements found uranium and radium. analyzing the quanti- humans from the dan- process. When left to dry the discharge of the in the plants, printed on Large deposits of ura- ties of toxic and radi- gers of its contamination. out, the radioactive dust phone’s flash completes top of and across colour ninite were discovered ating elements in the It is thought that safe of these tailings can be a Promethean loop that fields of earthy tones. Kriemann & Wilson — 8

The pigments used by archive. An exhibition Because of their Kriemann for the cap- usually lasts a month or chemical properties, tions, the lists, and two or three, a temporal the special pigments the colour fields were unit that corresponds used to produce Krie- manufactured using the to a human scale of mann’s captions will, crushed and ground- lived time, an extended in time, fade. The cap- up dust from the same sensation of the histori- tions’ lifespan as text plants whose imprints cal now. It parallels the outlasts their existence we see in the photo- approximate duration as exhibits by only a few grams, including the of a botanical season, it months, after which the toxic elements sourced matches the extent of effects of sunlight will from the recesses deep recent memory. It is the have defeated the earthy below the Gessenwiese. equivalent of a vague browns, greens, and The plants themselves, present. The time of umber, abandoning the at some point in the fall an exhibition stretches black-and-white im- of 2016, surrendered beyond the attention ages to their composed their physical form to span of a news cycle but image-life and passing become symbol and sign. doesn’t last long enough on to a new stage of de­ The captions are read in to be a reminder of a dif- composition. time and simultaneously ferent time and self. Time Kriemann’s bleached operate across time as can be said to be the pigments harbour an- objects in the exhibition, medium of exhibition, its other, fiercer temporal materially replacing or dimension established anomaly: neither exhibi- rather containing the im- for the sake of the tem- tion nor exposure to the ages’ subject matter as poral awareness of its rays of light affect the their incarnate chromatic human visitor. particles of the pigments afterlife. The adjacent Text, too, itself a themselves, which will, photograms of the plants medium, relies on time in ways invisible and (simultaneously icon and as its agent. Despite its illegible to the human index) show the black- configuration as an im- eye, continue to emanate and-white silhouettes mutable accumulation of a kind of energy whose of proliferating shoots letters on a page, writ- lifespan exists beyond and explosions of pollen ten language (including any human dimension that resemble images code) is only intelligible of time. These plants taken in cloud chambers through and in the time have absorbed not only or some kind of abstract of its reader. Text makes an array of heavy metals expressionist firework. multiple claims toward and rare earths, but also temporalities: it exists traces of caesium-137, The duration of an both across time and uranium-235, and other exhibition is marked by within the moment it is radiating substances the dates of its open- read—and, in the case found in the highly Radioactive tailing drying near Seelingstädt, 2001 ing and its dismantling, of fiction, also looks to contaminated soil of the after which it ceases to the temporal space of its uranium mining sites exist beyond memory or narrative diegesis operated by Wismut in Kriemann & Wilson — 11

the Ore Mountains. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki more than 130,000 fading pigment itself is on August 6 and 9, the people and generated radioactive. Kriemann’s Soviet Union founded the the majority of uranium harvest thus reclaims Sächsische Erzsuchab- required for the Soviet nature in a way that teilung, the so-called nuclear program. feeds into a different Saxon ore search unit, Three decades later, circulation than those under military direction. by the end of the 1980s, that came before: she In 1947, the mines in the with world prices for produces forensic or Ore Mountains quarried uranium falling and re- semiotic evidence of the 145 tonnes of uranium sources in the Ore Moun- unseen hazards, evi- and quickly went on tains depleted, Wismut’s dence that is simultane- to become the largest main buyer, the USSR, ously melancholic and provider of the element failed to pay for its debts violent—a vicious work, for the USSR, producing or uphold deals, plung- harbouring radioactivity around 10,000 tonnes ing the company into as an ionizing agent that by the end of 1953. grave financial trouble. In continues to emit rays, Several mines in the 1990, the GDR and USSR entering the body of the areas of Schneeberg, agreed to halt all produc- viewer, the reader, the Johanngeorgenstadt, tion. Following the fall collector. Annaberg-Buchholz, and of the Wall and later the Marienberg were an- breakup of the Soviet Following the capitula- nexed by the USSR and Union, the SDAG Wismut tion of Germany in 1945, became part of the state- AG was dissolved and which put an end to the run Wismut AG. Workers absorbed by the Federal proclaimed eternity of were initially recruited Republic of Germany. All the Thousand-Year Reich from the surrounding responsibilities for the that reigned for twelve area by way of forced cleanup of the gigan- interminable years, labour. After 1947, follow- tic ecological damage and while American ing protests, conditions caused by the now forces were scrambling for workers improved, defunct mining company to secure German V-2 and by the 1950s, the subsequently fell to the technology and hu- notoriously arduous and Federal Republic of Ger- man intelligence in the dangerous work at the many. Today’s Wismut Harz Mountains, Soviet Wismut mines came GmbH employs around a specialists set out to with extra privileges to thousand people whose investigate the uranium sweeten the deal: high task it is to rehabilitate deposits in Saxony wages, regular deliver- an area that will most and Thuringia that had ies of schnapps, access likely remain contami- remained largely over- to desirable apartments, nated for thousands of looked at the time. On and a growing pride in years. Radioactive tailing drying near Seelingstädt, 2013 September 14, little the mining culture and more than a month after the community of Kum- The effects of radioactive “Little Boy” and “Fat pel (pitmen). At its zenith, contamination are cu- Man” detonated over the Wismut AG employed mulative and calculated Kriemann & Wilson — 12 on a basis of time and that make them vulner- that already exists? Will intensity. The longer the able, diminishing their its development coincide exposure lasts, the worse chances of survival. Only with the complete deple- the damage. Rays and animals without muta- tion of fossil fuels? Can particles enter the body tions survive, and thrive you, future humans, hear and damage the ge- in ecospheres deserted radiation? Can you smell nome or disrupt cellular by humans. In the wake it? See it? Taste it? Or metabolic processes, of nuclear fallout, plants have you formed a new causing mutations that become the archivists sense altogether, one can become carcino- of contamination, their that we cannot imagine genic. Particles inhaled roots absorbing from and and you could not de- and retained in the body returning to the soil the scribe to us now—those continue to radiate from radioactive particles. who lack the words and within, breaking chemi- the nerves for that tingle. cal bonds, transmutating Can we think of text as I assume—clumsily— chromosomes. Inhabit- a kind of soil? A humus that the “sound” of radia- ants of towns in the gestating sordid growth? tion would register to us vicinity of the Fukushima What if this soil were like the auditory feed- Daiichi Nuclear Power contaminated, its crop back that a Geiger coun- Plant are only allowed hazardous, its dust full of ter emits, a crackling to return to their houses ionizing radiation expos- noise whose increasing for thirty minutes every ing pupils and respiratory frequency raises adrena- few weeks. The dose of tracts and concentrating line levels. Jean-Luc polonium-210 that was in thyroid glands? Read- Nancy describes hearing administered to Alexan- ing assumes the proxim- as contagion. Sound is der Litvinenko at the Mil- ity of a pair of eyes to the movement of air that lennium Hotel in London the page and its matter. sets the body in motion, in 2006 was so high that Reading is a prolonged that spreads within the aircraft, restaurants, and exposure to text, a bodily resonating body and hotels were contami- leaning into serifs and cannot be contained or nated in the course of the punctuations, eyes wide kept either wholly inside assassination attempts. to receive the reflected or outside. In contrast In Chernobyl’s exclu- light. What else have you to this, an ontology of sion zone, wild elk, boar, ingested? Which cells radioactivity could not be and wolves roam today. have begun to modify, to written along the lines of It remains unclear why turn against you, to give contagion. Radioactivity nature’s recovery is up this life cycle in favour instead must be under- often so swift in areas of the next: What will it stood as a phenomenon with severe radioac- hold? that is delineated by tive contamination. One How long will it take its properties of con- Autoradiograph produced by the possible explanation is humans to develop a new tamination, decay, and stripping-film technique that the carcinogenic ef- sense that detects ion- transmutation. Imagin- fects of radiation causes izing radiation? Will it be ing this future human, mutations in organisms an evolution of an organ evolved and adapted to Kriemann & Wilson — 15

new, elevated levels of lead contamination from life without entropy, no radiation, a radioactive outside sources, in order half-life without decay. sensory organ might to analyze the age of a The father of cyber- react to a spectrum of Canyon Diablo mete- netics, Norbert Wiener, wavelengths that is not orite (which had crash- remarked that “the currently visible to the landed in today’s Arizona stable state of a living human eye. This more 50,000 years ago) and organism is to be dead.” sophisticated eye (if it is from this, that of the so- Wiener, in 1950, pub- an eye) might have devel- lar system. Earth is only lished an article advocat- oped over time, gradually slightly younger than ing “urban dispersal” as distinguishing ultraviolet, the sun: over a course of necessary preparation and then X- and gamma approximately 50 million for a nuclear attack. At- rays. Henry Fox Talbot’s years, the solar nebula tempting to scatter the early dream of a camera collapsed into the solar concentration of residen- that could record images disk, its dust agglom- tial and industrial sites of in a darkened room, a erating into planets American cluster cities revolutionary mechanical and meteorites. (But of that presented obvi- fantasy of vision, might course it is tautological ous military targets, he become human after all. to assume the dimension proposed the develop- of years here, there hav- ment of flattened, linear, Human future is ra- ing been no Earth to orbit or gridded settlements dioactive, as is human the toddling sun.) that were less densely knowledge of the past: After 1949, when the populated and whose what we know of the age Soviet Union conducted destruction could not of the Earth is extrater- its first nuclear weapons cripple the country like restrial, irradiating, and test (“First Lightning”) at an attack on one of its entropic. In 1956, Clair the Semipalatinsk Test metropolises would. Cameron Patterson, an Site in Kazakhstan using Suburbia as the locus of American researcher who Wismut’s uranium, the civil defense and survival was previously involved Cold War created an un- became a dimmed and in the Manhattan Project, cannily stable condition decentralized half-life, developed uranium– of escalation and equi- the American Dream ful- lead (U–Pb) radiometric librium, one that could filled in the equilibrium dating, using the decay only be perceived as a of non-events in non- chain of uranium incor- new permanent state. places. This was a spatial porated in zircon (Earth’s An ever-faster accumula- reality that mirrored the oldest mineral) as an in- tion of nuclear arms set non-cities of the Soviet dicator of time. Uranium in motion a process of Union—the so-called decays into lead with a endless fallout. By now, Atomgrads—closed cities Autoradiograph produced by the half-life of 4.46 billion nuclear tests around the in which nuclear technol- stripping-film technique years. In Pasadena, Pat- globe have left ubiqui- ogy was assembled and terson created one of tous traces of radiation, tested and which would the first “clean rooms,” a markers of the advent of appear on no official map laboratory that prevented the Anthropocene. No or street sign. Kriemann & Wilson — 16

In Thur­ingia and Sax- they were somehow ab- ony, villages disappeared sent. There was a heavi- or meander­ed in the ness there, which hung wake of various mining over everything: over the endeavours, a gigantic seemingly endless series sculptural exercise that of days in the courtyard, could move entire cities, over the garden, in the create new landscapes, labyrinth of the outbuild- and mutate whole envi- ing of the half-dead, post- ronments, thus upend- collectivization estate. ing any notion of Heimat (Lutz Seiler) (homeland) and acceler- ating tectonic events as Today, their wives and if mankind had become widows inhabit the titanic. expensive houses af- But really, mankind had forded by their husbands’ become tired in Wismut- diminished (half-)lives. Land. The miners were Extended exposure to heavy with constant fa- alpha radiation caused tigue and solemnly lacked constant damage to the the words to describe miners’ y-chromosomes: their subterranean life their offspring were more untertage (under days). often female than male. A generation of nuclear People there, it was said, women is the conse- were apathetic and list- quence of these cellular less and they themselves dramas, of their fathers’ even complained about necropolitical wagers their perennial fatigue and and the transgressions of wondered about those transnational extraction. strange moments when — Eva Wilson

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List of Illustrations April 15, 2013, 32918, rgb. The deposits are related Courtesy of Landesamt für to deep crustal northwest- C. Harvesting plants on Vermessung und Geoinfor- trending fault structures, the Gessenwiese, a field mation, Erfurt, Germany. with the most important be- of grassland on the former ing the Gera-Jáchymov fault mining territories of SDAG SAG / SDAG Wismut was a zone containing most of the Wismut, where uraninite was uranium mining company in larger deposits, including mined. Susanne Kriemann the GDR during the time of Jáchymov on the Czech site visited the Gessenwiese in the Cold War. It produced a of the Erzgebirge moun- September 2016 together total of 230,400 tonnes of tains, Johanngeorgenstadt, with geologists and bi- uranium between 1947 and Pöhla-Tellerhäuser, Schnee- ologists of the University of 1990 and made the GDR the berg-Schlema-Alberoda Jena, Germany. fourth largest producer of in the German part of the uranium ore in the world at Erzgebirge mountains, and 2–5. Susanne Kriemann, the time. It was the largest Ronneburg black shale–type Pechblenden, MfN, 7, 42, and single producer of uranium mineralization in Thuringia. 84 days in 2016. Half-life 4.5 ore in the entire sphere of The size of the mineraliza- billion years. Autoradiogra- control of the USSR. In 1991, tions ranges from very small phy of uraninite taken from after German reunification, deposits with some hundred Hartenstein, Ore Mountains, it was transformed into kilograms of uranium con- Saxony, Germany. Collection the Wismut GmbH com- tent and a few mineralized of the Museum of Natural pany, owned by the Federal veins up to the giant deposit History, Berlin. Republic of Germany, which of Schneeberg-Schlema- is now responsible for the Alberoda containing nearly Test 4 1 / 16–16 / 16, Sample restoration and environmen- 100,000 tonnes of uranium 1999_0505. Test began on tal cleanup of the former and about 2,000 mineralized March 6, 2016, coinciding mining and milling areas. veins. with the opening of the exhi- The head office of SDAG Political and economic bition Pechblende (Chapter 1) Wismut / Wismut GmbH is changes in the GDR and at the Ernst Schering Foun- in Chemnitz-Siegmar. the subsequent reunifica- dation, Berlin, and ended on The Ore Mountains (Erz- tion of Germany led to the June 19, 2016. gebirge) and the adjacent cessation of uranium mining One sample of uraninite Vogtland mountains were the in December 1990. The from Saxony, Germany, was first targets for uranium ex- Federal Republic of Germany tested on sixteen sheet films ploration and host the largest assumed ownership of the in the basement of the Mu- number of deposits mined by East German and Soviet seum of Natural History in Wismut. All deposits in these stocks of the company and Berlin. Each week, one sheet mountain ranges are hydro- transformed the company film was removed. Sup- thermal vein-style mineraliza- into Wismut GmbH in 1991. ported by Dr. Ralf Thomas tions in Palaeozoic metasedi- The restoration of the former Schmitt, Museum of Natural mentary and igneous rocks mining and milling sites, History, Leibnitz-Institute for and Variscan-age granites. for which the government Evolution and Biodiversity Most deposits are situated approved a total budget Installation views of Science, Berlin. in the western Ore Moun- of around 6.4 billion euros, Falsche Kamille, Wilde Möhre, Bitterkraut tains and the neighbouring though higher costs are at RaebervonStenglin, Zürich, 2016 9 / 10. Radioactive tailing Vogtland region, whereas anticipated, includes secur- near Seelingstädt. 200104, the central and eastern Ore ing / filling underground cav- 1933, May 1, 2001, 12500, Mountains contain only a few ities, covering dumps and rgb, and 201304, 0053, smaller deposits. tailings, treating mine water, Kriemann & Wilson — 24 and removing / decontami- fine state of division. It is About the Artist & Author nating the buildings. In 2011 good practice to test the the restoration program was staining solutions for silver Susanne Kriemann is a extended to the year 2045. solvents by running a trial Berlin-based artist and pro- (Source: Wikipedia) alpha-ray-exposed emulsion fessor for artistic photogra- through the staining proce- phy at the Karlsruhe Univer- 13 / 14. Autoradiographs dure. (Source: S. R. Pelc and sity of Arts and Design and produced by the stripping- Alma Howard, “Techniques an advisor at the Jan Van film technique. of Autoradiography and the Eyck Academy Academy, Application of the Stripping- Maastricht. Together with A thin section of tissue is Film Method to Problems of Aleksander Komarov, she spread in a petri dish on wa- Nuclear Metabolism,” British founded the artist initiative ter at 42°C. When the ribbon Medical Journal 8, nos. 2–3 AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz is smooth, the small dish is (1951).) in 2010. Her work has been placed in a large bowl of cool exhibited internationally at water illuminated with a red 17–21. Susanne Kriemann, Arnolfini, Bristol; Berlinische light and the section is float- Falsche Kamille, Wilde Galerie, Berlin; Kunstverein ed onto a 2" × 2" lantern- Möhre, Bitterkraut (Zyklus 2), Braunschweig; Prefix ICA, slide plate. After twenty-four 2017. Heliogravures. Toronto; and the 11th Shang- hours, when the unit is dry, hai Biennale, and has been the paraffin is removed with Falsche Kamille (false published by Spector Books, xylol and the exposure is chamomile), Wilde Möhre Sternberg Press, ROMA, and continued for a sufficient pe- (wild carrot), and Bitterkraut Witte de With. Her artist riod as indicated by a Geiger (ox tongue) are three types books are testaments to her counter. After development, of weeds that grow on the overarching concern with ar- fixation, and washing, the Gessenwiese. In September chiving—how past, present, plate is stained with Harris’s 2016, these plants were pho- and future is written, read, hematoxylin solution by the tographed on site and then and rewritten—and the con- following route: overstain → harvested and dried. The nections that can be found wash → acid water → wash pigment used for the prints between art, literature, and → alkaline water → wash → is made from the ground-up, archaeology. counterstain with eosin. uranium-bearing dust of the The stained preparation same plants that were pho- Eva Wilson is a writer and is dehydrated in alcohols, tographed. When exposed curator based in London cleared in xylol, and mount- to UV rays, the colour of the and is currently working on ed in clarite or balsam. pigments gradually becomes a doctoral thesis at Freie Evans cautions on the use of invisible, an erasure that Universität Berlin on the ferric alum as a differentiat- takes about a year. concept of virtuality and ing agent after hematoxylin the virtual image in the staining, as the reagent 22. Installation images of nineteenth century. She is reduces the intensity of the Susanne Kriemann, Falsche an editor for documenta 14 silver deposit. Its application Kamille, Wilde Möhre, Bit- and was a researcher at the is serviceable only when the terkraut, RaebervonStenglin, Center for Advanced Studies photographic image is too Zürich, 2016. Photograms BildEvidenz at Freie Univer- dense from overexposure. and silkscreens with sität. She was Director of The developed silver grains ground-up wild carrot, false Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, and in nuclear-type emulsions chamomile, and ox tongue a curator at Thyssen-Bor- are particularly sensitive to on handmade paper. Photos nemisza Art Contemporary, acid solutions owing to their by Susanne Hefti. Vienna. Supplement – 2 Published by Fillip Fillip gratefully acknowledg- es the support of the Canada Exclusion Zones ISSN: 1715-3212 Council for the Arts, the City Images: Susanne Kriemann ISBN: 978-1-927354-29-2 of Vancouver, and the British Text: Eva Wilson Columbia Arts Council. 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