Quick and Easy: 116 Steps to Survive the Nuclear Apocalypse
Alice Schoenberg
STRIDE +15 WINDOW
ARTS COMMONS
205 8 AVE SE
August 21 – October 15, 2018
Closing Reception
Thursday, September 20 @ 6-7PM
Refreshments to follow at the Palomino
Quick and Easy: 116 Steps to Survive the Nuclear Apocalypse explores the system of safety reflected in a series of found pamphlets, distributed in the 1960’s by the Canadian government with information about how to survive the nuclear war. This installation adopts the language of inappropriate optimism found within the pamphlets and presents the quantity of materials, totalling 116, which are required to build and stock a fallout shelter in case of a nuclear attack. The installation questions the nature of this type of safety information and its functionality both in its original context, and in the current political climate.
ALICE SCHOENBERG is a queer identifying, interdisciplinary artist and current undergraduate at the Alberta College of Art + Design. Her performance, video and installation work is targeted towards creating a dialogue based on theories of social epistemology, specifically in the exploration of the nature of social truths and their circulation.
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