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nucleus

0 Intro The year is 1986. Ukraine, Chernobyl. On the 26. of April a disastrous accident happens. At 1:23am, nuclear reactor No. 4 overheats and explodes. Large quantities of radioactive substances leak and contaminate surrounding areas. At this point, no one can predict what this will entail.

1 Setup / Status quo Drive; shine; run; shout; expose; honk; work; show, advertise, party, excess. Demand of energy tremendous. Electricity omnipresent. Light everywhere. Air polluted. The supreme command is MORE. Abolish darkness. Kill silence. No nature where man is. This is city. — We demand; we invent; we harvest, we harm; we leave, we forget. The reliable constant is time. Quiet and undisturbed by man, adaptable nature reclaims contaminated soils in unheard-of characteristics.

2 Outside/City NYC, Broadway Buzzing cars; flashing lights; polluted air. Shop windows, call for attention, but one. A somber hole in the carpet of lights. Windows semi-transparent, a limited view into the store. Interest is awakened. A regular stair lowers in darkness.

3 Entrance Door closes, suppresses the noise, lights and dirty air from the city. Vacuum. Light radiates on walls of old wood. A bizarre wooden counter greets with cold kindness. A suit to be worn; no access without, strict policies.

4 Stairs Walls are covered. The many tools demand a choice. A rush, a wild, fresh smell of adventure. Not fully aware what to expect. Anticipation rises. Fully equipped to the next chamber.

5 Garden No buzzing cars; no flashing lights; no polluted air; no Broadway; no New York.— Unheards-of vegetation instead; fertilised with contagion, the trash of greed. Alien nature intimidates, scares, astonishes, enchant, wonders, questions, amaze, disturb, delight. Unclear ways take into the abysmal garden; stepping on the soil is un-allowed. Manmade structures behind thick Glas. No permission to access. Ways split, asking for a choices, deeper in the new-forest. Breeding pods contain contagious soil, air is heavy. The Suit and the weapon protect, nonetheless unease, excitement. Just now, a visitor finds a commendable piece. Pruning shears, at the stem of the piece, prepare to cut. With force, the blades cut through the creature.

6 Transformation Shelfs store waiting creatures for transformation. Sterile environment. All strictly controlled. Machines hissing, Pumps pumping, ventilators breathing. Operation done. Ready for further processing…

7 Purification The exquisite piece deposited, the journey continues. Past history of time, contaminated debris fills the earth. Into the protective tube, into the shower. The Air lights up, pressure decreases, muscles relax, breath returns to normal. Steam cleans pores deep, until no more radiation.

8 Transaction/Exit A known space. Return gear and suit. On the table, the creature; poured into glas; time freezes; damned to the moment. A new species, never seen before, a singular. Carrying the object, stairs let one emerge. Back to the real world.

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"... entering an underground corridor where you can only move by groping in the darkness, then encountering the scene of a glowing altar painted in primary colours illuminated by the  canons de lumiere -  in other words, a bundle of light tubes - for me, more than surprise, I was intoxicated by a kind of ecstasy that I want to record here."

Toyo Ito - Tarzans in the media forest

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“That BEAST is the great city. It is infinitely more powerful than all these devices. And it is just beginning to wake. What will tomorrow bring forth to cope with it ?”

Le Corbusier - The city of tomorrow

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“One can certainly say that ruins become more picturesque the more they are subject to decay: although the age value of ruins becomes less and less extensive as decay progresses that is to say, as their age value is evoked by fewer and fewer elements it also becomes more and more intensive, since the remaining elements have a much more forceful effect on the viewer.”

Price - Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage

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“On stage, the light rays shaped the deployed veils into stars; they glowed the colours of the rainbow or set them ablaze, completing the disappearance of the body in the whirlwind of forms. It is the spiritual form of matter, or the material form of spirituality.”

Jacques Rancière - Aisthesis