I Saw The World End still, London
Es Devlin, I Saw The World End still, Piccadilly Circus London Japanese Bombings Anniversary
I Saw The World End still
3 August 2020
‘I Saw The World End still’ London by Es Devlin & Machiko Weston
British And Japanese Artists Es Devlin And Machiko Weston Collaborate on
New Commission To Commemorate The 75th Anniversary Of The Bombings Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Es Devlin, I Saw The World End still:
To mark the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 2020, (IWM) Imperial War Museums have commissioned a new work from leading artist Es Devlin working in collaboration with her long-term studio colleague Machiko Weston.
Closely aligning with the timings of the actual bombings, the 45-metre-wide digital work will be shown on the Piccadilly Lights giant screen in Piccadilly Circus at 8.10am on Thursday 6th and at 11am on Sunday 9th August and simultaneously on the Imperial War Museum website. The new commission, I Saw The World End, responds to the moment the nature and consequences of war were irrevocably redefined, reflecting on the impact of the event from both a British and a Japanese perspective.
Locked down in their separate studios, the text has been researched and collated by the two artists from a range of sources in English and Japanese. Half of the text, read by Devlin in English, traces the origination of the atomic bomb in fiction by HG Wells, the account of the translation directly from fiction to physics by...
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