a me that caused nuclear meltdowns of japan's fukushima power plant artists in the country are still coming to grips with the catastrophe a new exhibition in the city of mito in the prefecture next to fukushima is giving artists space to reflect on the nation's trauma and on how to explain what happens to the next generation. today i. am. this is the fukushima exclusion zone a japanese artists collective has used this no man's land for an art project exploring the restricted area around the ruined nuclear plant and placing artworks the public will only be able to access them once the restrictions have been lifted until then the website for the project remains a blank page that's displayed as part of an art exhibition in mito a city about 150 kilometers from the exclusion zone. the contemporary art center in me toll is now featuring these and other artworks

exploring artists reflections on the triple disaster 10 years on. the art center was damaged by the 2011 earthquake but it wasn't affected by the nuclear accident that allowed curator utaka he said to address the catastrophe early on by documenting artists activities. like this recording made in the aftermath of the disaster. really going to that it is us the affected area and they started to do some volunteer work but afterwards they actually used the. techniques to sort of. at ease and heal. the inside the people. he karo fuji was one of them immediately after march 11th he went to forests with extremely high levels of radiation and film there he felt

driven to create a memory of that time. that it's very difficult to create a work of art when such a catastrophe has occurred to me as a question but when i started shooting with my camera it wasn't with the intention of creating art but rather to record. it. so my comment. was must. 10 years later he addresses the issue of discrimination against the people of fukushima who are regarded as being contaminated traumatizing them yet again in his documentary a teacher conducts an exercise with her students labeling them as inferior or superior depending on where they live so they can experience the strawman and reflect on that of our. panel that go on less than a week. dawn not that that's not the all he caro fuji's goal is to pass on the memory of the catastrophe almost no traces of the destruction remain visible in

mito today people seem to have moved on. but the artists in this exhibition don't want to forget especially in a country where natural disasters are a constant reality. comes in and i think it is a reality that there will be a catastrophe at some point in the future in japan or elsewhere in the world. preparing for it is a very important issue. that's why we worked with the children highest topics. says the question asked. in the last remove the exhibition there are no artworks just a space for visitors to reflect and express their feelings it's an attempt to make art a platform for building a collective memory in order to move forward. people have their own memory to the disaster if you have experienced it it but we just didn't have on our

dating life that they talk about talking about it something different so organising an exhibit will sort of a given opportunity to poor people or to. yourself to that disaster and also to talk about it. more art news now for the 1st time ever christie's auction house is selling off a work of purely digital art the collage by artist b. people does not exist anywhere as a physical art work only as highly encrypted data here are just a few of the thousands of images contained in it christie's on why an auction ends thursday morning new york time and potential buyers are already bidding millions to try to get it. this is the latest in a movement called crypto art and stick in the art world by storm t w reporter michael kruger is following this trend micro 1st of all who is this

people guy and why do people want to spend millions of dollars on his artwork be able is mike winkle man and he's a graphic designer from the united states and he's one of the most prolific artists of all time maybe. for more than 12 years he produced every single day an artwork which he puts together in the end and the whole picture this is what we just saw and of of course he was also busy with other stuff and he's not only very productive some say he's really it genius when it comes to this graphic artist here we see him he's just maybe a new type of an artist looks like a typical nerd for me by the game community and developed together with so many other artists maybe now even a new jonah ok is a very soon somewhere someone will own this piece of work that took years to make but what does that even means i own

a piece of crypto art how does that work it's all about and of t. this is the basis of everything which makes everything possible an f. and f. t. that means fungible token and that means that it guarantees you ownership so. so it can be copied it's no it's not possible to copy it's written in the dot the base that this is the it's when you imagine maybe the mona lisa in the louvre but he is able to make pictures of the mona lisa but she stays in the louvre hopefully has a rich you know and with and of t. and cooked a lot it's it's just the same nearly but they only exist in the ditches to full term crypto are there's just this whole explosion around. i don't think many of us had heard of crypto art not long ago and now it is the big thing in the world what's going on where it's new it's fresh it's wasn't because of the auction at

christie's maybe it's now a topic not only for this fringe group of odd. now it's available for us for everybody. but here is a few 1000000 absolutely and a lot of people are trying to experiment now with n f t sample. she created the series with new bone flying fighters and sold this op collection for $6000000.00 maybe you'll remember also this iconic cats and internet mean from levon the artist behind turn it was just creating and if t. out of her and sold this well fold millions so you can create nearly everything which is digital as an f t as an original a very exciting project was another one a very exciting into the it's a group of fans. bought this print from banksy

and burned it in a live stream so that the physical art of work now is destroyed but this still the digital ones and whoever owns it maybe will project it on a wall or maybe it's just going to be in a computer somewhere my could just wait to the bed you to rise absolutely thanks. at the berlin international film festival talented young filmmakers from around the world come together each year at bally knowledge talents a program where they can network and exchange ideas over the years we've met quite a few talents including director cook up from sudan we checked in with him again to see how he's doing since his country's transition to democracy. wants to make films for his people we caught up with the filmmaker in berlin where he was taking a break from his troubled home country of sudan a land long beset by conflict and mismanagement the conversation about filmmaking

soon shifted in august of last year together with 10 other artists who was arrested on what he says were trumped up charges as a long time supporter of peaceful change in sudan. on the steps of getting into peace but we're struggling with new things new things we're struggling with a technocrat government that can't. deal with running the government alongside this military and the national security and the remainder of the old regime with the old mentality with the old mind shift. so now we're we're set we're like we could do it this is this is the time in sudan's history where we could do it if we fail it's us failing but it still needs a lot of energy to go forward with we 1st met had huge coup come back in 2016 he was living in the nuba mountains at the time the middle of a war zone he took part in the belly nama talents program after making the award

winning documentary beats of the antenna. and it's a film about music identity to warn you about the war using music so within that i concentrate on music and culture on daily life and concentrate on people who. moved from new york to the nuba mountains to support his people in 2012 the film shows how locals cope with the civil war that surrounds them. you scared like you naturally scared everybody around you scared everybody's running into foxholes there's a moment when you come out that you want to make sure everybody's ok there's that moment of fear but as soon as you notice everybody is ok then there's that moment of extreme happiness. bits of the antonov one the best documentary audience award

at the 2014 toronto film festival. in 2018 he made his 1st fiction film akasha an antiwar comedy it premiered at venice. i wanted to make sure that we don't just keep having this heroic idea of war and war as this amazing thing and to become a man and become. hero and go to war so i wanted to destroy that. despite the difficulties surrounding him continues to make films for his people he is now planning a film about the odyssey africans undertake in an effort to reach europe a kind of pan african road trip. that's it for this edition of arts and culture a leading now though with a little glamour from paris fashion week the house of battle unveiled its new collection and a video shot at paris was shot of the airport just a little reminder of what it was like to travel once upon a time cesar. pretty. moving

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