Water/ Meet the artist Michael Candy

Michael Candy’s video work Little Sunfish 2019 imagines a surreal, nuclear infiltration of ocean waters. Since the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster in 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant continues to leak radioactive material, resulting in ever-increasing volumes
of contaminated water. Among other solutions, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has developed a small robot, named ‘Little Sunfish’, to investigate damaged reactors. Little Sunfish tracks the journey of one of these robots gone rogue, using a prototype of the machine. Candy imagines a scenario where the robot escapes from the disaster zone, through TEPCO’s ‘Ice Wall’ surrounding the plant, into the greater Pacific Ocean, and then travels upstream in Queensland's freshwater creeks.
Michael Candy, Australia b.1990 / Little Sunfish 2019 / Mp4 video: 16:9 / Courtesy: The artist
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