RESIST THE ROMANCE
LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: ATOMIC SUMMER is a series of arts and educational events intended to resist the dominant, often romanticized, narrative of atomic history in New Mexico. The series will engage the community through arts exhibitions, actions,
The Friends of Tony Price have organized this series to stand with all conscientious citizens of New Mexico in calling for nuclear disarmament, environmental protection, social justice, and economic sustainability NOW.
Your donations will support:
- A FREE public panel discussion with Greg Mello of Los Alamos Study Group; featuring Godfrey Reggio and others
- A FREE public panel discussion with Leona Morgan of Nuclear Issues Study Group; featuring Beata Tsosie-Peña of Tewa Women United
-The production of a large-scale exhibition of Tony Price's works at PHIL SPACE Gallery
-A community-wide educational campaign including a full-sized "Land of Enchantment: Atomic Summer" billboard on I-25, for the months of July and August
-The debut of the first ever mobile Tony Price sculpture (keep an eye out for the Mobile Crucifix roving around Santa Fe!)
-An exhibition of Erika Wanenmacher's The Science Club: The Boy's Room in the Axle Contemporary mobile exhibition space
-Spontaneous acts of performance art throughout June and July
LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: ATOMIC SUMMER is supported by The Friends of Tony Price, Phil Space, Los Alamos Study Group, and Axle Contemporary.
Many thanks to the New Mexico Community Foundation.
"The Summer of 2018 will see, writ-large, the promotion of the public story on the birth and growth of the global nuclear industry. Its epicenter is the Land of Enchantment. Sparsely peopled with ancients, settlers and now the world, it’s geologic solitude has more to say than can be spoken. A land that is the sky. From vast isolation, hidden in plain sight, emanates a global cloud of unintended consequences that darken all horizons - “like a dawn without a day”. Its truth has become our truth, from terrifying beauty to terrifying world.
Our project, Land of Enchantment: Atomic Summer, seeks to explore a story beyond the veneer of the crafted. Enchantment shares its meaning with incantation. Both portend spells, wizardry, magic, irresistible charm and repetitious wordiness used to conceal deeper meaning. Jobs, jobs, jobs, the blurring mantra, “pray for more”.
Out-of-step with the expected, we will enter the public dialog in image and word - the image to touch, the word to give voice. Nuclear is the subject and like a catechism not to be fundamentally questioned. Its voice, the oracle, the new divine to be, proclaims the new terra firma with signs and wonders, glasses for the blind that we may see. We see the world through language. “The limits of our language are the limits of our world.” Begin to change the language, the story, is to begin to change your world.
Should you wish to join us, to explore beyond the grammar of mythology, to add a contrarian voice to the story, know that this becomes more vital with your support. Of the five elements (earth, air, water, fire, money) four are birthrights. It is the fifth we seek. "- Godfrey Reggio, The Friends of Tony Price
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Since his passing in 2000, the Friends of Tony Price have maintained, displayed, promoted, and protected the legacy and life’s work of Tony Price. The Friends of Tony Price are committed to the manifestation of Tony’s vision of a permanent memorial displaying his works, which gives free and open access to the viewing public, to be built and located in Santa Fe. Visit the website.
