Time: Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 3–5 pm
Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Common Room, Fabianinkatu 24A, 3rd floor
The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies welcomes the public to the HCAS Salon – a series of conversations that explore the collaboration between scholarly and artistic work. The events are hosted by HCAS fellows, alumni, and their guests, and they offer engaging talks, creative performances, and lively conversation.
In this HCAS Salon, we will discuss the aesthetics of nuclear culture. The event begins with TIME ZERO, a sonic talk by Sean J Patrick Carney. The talk is followed by a discussion with Jason Waite, HCAS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts. At the end of the event, all participants are invited to join a reception featuring wine and snacks.
The event is free and open to the public. Welcome!
TIME ZERO
TIME ZERO is a multimedia research project about the aesthetics of the nuclearized world. By collating and contextualizing atomic depictions in contemporary art, literature, and cinema, TIME ZERO identifies how the ongoing legacies of nuclear weapons development and testing, uranium mining, nuclear energy, and the disposal of radioactive waste have reorganized human relationships to one another, to the landscape, and to conceptions of time.
Listen to the Time Zero podcast trailer on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Libsyn.
Speaker bios
Sean J Patrick Carney is an American writer, researcher, composer, and visual artist. His essays, criticism, and interviews appear frequently in publications including Artforum, Art in America, Artnet News, and Harvard Urban Review. In 2019, Carney received the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for short-form writing. Previously, he was part of New York artist collective the Bruce High Quality Foundation and served as faculty and co-director of their experimental, tuition-free school, BHQFU. His works and performances have been presented at venues including MOCA Los Angeles; Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam; the Banff Centre, Alberta; and Printed Matter, New York among others. He is currently Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio Art at the University of Florida.
Jason Waite is a curator, writer, and researcher. He is an HCAS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts and part of the collective Don't Follow the Wind curating an ongoing project inside the uninhabited Fukushima exclusion zone and co-editor of the book Don't Follow the Wind (2021) published by Sternberg Press. His project at HCAS looks at what can humans and more-than-human creatures learn from one another after durational, large-scale environmental disaster, and what types of interspecies infrastructures can be developed to sustainable post-disaster coexistence.