Spring Water, Fault, Body, is inspired by the journal entries of Hanae Utamura’s father, a scientist who spent his life researching nuclear energy. Performative, documentary and found footage is overlaid with the memoirs of a scientist who dreamed of peaceful use of nuclear energy during the economic growth of post-war Japan amidst the Cold War; in the aftermath of the WWII atomic bombs and prior to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident of 2011. In this feminist, intimate retelling of this history, the artist identifies the limits of scientific inquiry, the fragile links between humanity and the planet disrupted by single-minded pursuit of technological advancement and the scope of this legacy as crystalizing in a future strata created through ongoing geoscientific research in disposal of high-level radioactive waste in the deep underground.
〈泉水、斷層、身體〉的創作靈感來源為藝術家父親的筆記內容。宇多村英恵的父親是一名科學家，終其一生都在研究核能。這件作品交織著表演、紀錄，以及現成影像，參雜著一名生在戰後日本經濟發展以及冷戰期間、二戰核爆以後以及2011年福島核災之前的年代、幻想和平使用核能的科學家的回憶錄。〈泉水、斷層、身體〉以女性主義的視角，親暱地重述了這段歷史，也呈現科學的限制、人性的軟弱，以及對於科技的獨斷追求如何重挫了整個星球，和未來地底深層掩埋高放射性廢料所生成的地質層。
Supported by Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency program