Fallout Shelter, 2021
In Fallout Shelter, a site-specific installation in the basement of Hair+Nails Gallery, I ask the audience to consider the practices of preparation that we engage in (or wish we had engaged in or purposefully do not engage in) when a disaster occurs. I am breaking open the narrow definition of a disaster to include personal disasters such as loss of a loved one or mental health crises; economic and financial disasters; oppressive disasters wrought by racist, colonizer-built systems that reverberate through multiple generations; environmental disasters like oil spills and those climate-change disasters wrought by fossil fuel and nuclear capitalism; as well as natural disasters that include earthquakes, pandemics, and bacterial overgrowths.
Three Virtual Visits were conducted over the course of the exhibit to broaden the audience to anyone who felt they couldn't be there in person (due to distance, pandemic-related issues, or otherwise) as well as to give space for some participatory workshop time. A mini-version of the RadMaps work was integrated into the visits, with invitations for virtual audiences to fill out a collective Fear Scale and to draw their own canned goods to add to the Fallout Shelter.
Three Virtual Visits were conducted over the course of the exhibit to broaden the audience to anyone who felt they couldn't be there in person (due to distance, pandemic-related issues, or otherwise) as well as to give space for some participatory workshop time. A mini-version of the RadMaps work was integrated into the visits, with invitations for virtual audiences to fill out a collective Fear Scale and to draw their own canned goods to add to the Fallout Shelter.
XAPA:JOY, close-up from West Wall Installation; gouache, watercolor, and inkjet prints, Fallout Shelter 2021
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Acknowledgement Triptych, close-up; gouache, pencil, and ink on paper, Fallout Shelter 2021
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Extra Community, close-up from East Wall Installation; gouache, watercolor, and inkjet prints, Fallout Shelter, 2021
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FULL TEXT OF Acknowledgement TRIPTYCH HERE
Fallout Shelter (Duck & Cover), 2021
VHS video. 0:06:00 TRT
all footage from archive.org's Department of Energy archives
original sound by Jaffa Aharonov
edited by Kelley A Meister
VHS video. 0:06:00 TRT
all footage from archive.org's Department of Energy archives
original sound by Jaffa Aharonov
edited by Kelley A Meister
This work is supported in part by the Jerome Foundation, the Anderson Center, the Camargo Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Kelley Meister is a fiscal year 2021 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant and a 2019 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Kelley Meister is a fiscal year 2021 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant and a 2019 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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