Following their shutdown, the Isar I and II nuclear power plants are important landmarks and architectural witnesses to a belief in progress whose initial euphoria has come to an end. Along this architectural legacy of the nuclear age, we question the approaching future.

The difficulty of grasping a thing like this nuclear legacy, of such massive dimensions in time and space, forces us to think multidimensionally about our common future. To think about the meaning of such a hyper-object that hovers over us like a shadow, about the impact of our diverse actions on the limited living space of the earth, about the change of time scales, the interdependencies of power plant, city and region, as well as the mobilization of social energies. The traces of radioactive material allow divergent social aspects to be brought together.

Organisation und Production:
bankleer (Karin Kasböck und Christoph Maria Leitner)

Moderation:
Armen Avanessian (author, media theorist and professor at the Zeppelin University)

Guests:
Vincent Schier (curator and member of the research group Salt.Clay.Rock of the New Society of Fine Arts Berlin)
Katharina Mühlebach-Sturm (graduate chemist and chairwoman of the of the BUND nature conservation group in Landshut)
Elena Fedotova (former senior engineer for environmental and radiation protection at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant)
Stefan Mirbeth (Site Communication Isar of BGZ Gesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung mbH)
Janke Rentrop (Urban Designer at DZH Cologne, co-editor of  After Nuclear Power – Conversions of the Nuclear Age)
Gabriele Obermaier (artist, dismantling performance)
Ralf Homann (Radioaktiv*ist, various atoms)
Conductor and special train, Bayerischer Localbahn Verein e. V.

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