![]() I decided to project these eyes of nuclear weapon victims from both sides of the conflict to the museum exterior. The company was commissioned by the US government to develop a special capacitor for making the first Atomic Bombs which was then tested at Los Alamos, NM and later dropped in Japan to end the WWll. This project was first conceived during my studio residency at MASS MoCA (November 2021) where I learnt that most of the buildings where MASS MoCA currently resides belonged to Sprague Electronic during WWll. The projector is synchronized to the camera where I can record both the projection and the building that the image is projected to, making the photograph a record of the temporal monument. I modified a camera flash into a temporal projector, where I can insert a 35mm slide film to project the image onto any surface just momentary it reflects the countless A-bomb survivors’ stories describing the explosion as a single blinding flash. The original images were curated from books, video interviews and images I gathered from my own family album. Vertical LED lights guided party-goers toward a bar at the entrance of the museum space. This collection of 108 eyes belongs to 54 American Downwinders and 54 Japanese a-bomb victims stares out unblinking, homogeneous and anonymous. The project consists of 108 photographs documenting the projection of 108 eyes and the surrounding building that the image is projected. To Implore Your Light is a photographic series that exposes the hidden nuclear legacy embedded in many places across the United States through the contemplation of nuclear bomb victims both in Japan and the United States. MOCA Bangkok is divided into several galleries that house both permanent and temporary collections. This article was written by Léonore Vitry Becker for Art Republik. Performed at MASS MoCA (The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ) as part of the MASS MoCA Studio residency in 2021. MoCA L.I. Li-Chen’s solo exhibition will run until 27 August 2017 at MOCA Taipei and Asia Art Centre, Taipei, Taiwan. Performance: Modified camera flash as a temporal slide projector, 35mm slide films, Camera MOCA Artist Film Series: Clarissa TossinMojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los volcanes canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing, 2022, 64 min.West Coast premiere. ![]() Image: 108 still images of the performance The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. ![]()
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