Hanford Reach: In the Atomic Field

A look at lives and landscapes bearing secrets and scars of the atomic/nuclear era, Hanford Reach is a reflection upon the complexity of individual and collective memory, and upon the enduring nature of denial. Excerpts from original first-person narratives are interspersed with photographs taken in and around Hanford Nuclear Reservation, some within territories long removed from public access. Source interviews include Hanford scientists, Native elders, displaced farmers, and others variously impacted. Art intertwines with cultural documentary and political history. -- Glenna Cole Allee ― Glenna Cole Allee

Glenna Cole Allee is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work explores the shifting relationships between place, myth and memory. She holds an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from Reed College, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her current project Hanford Reach is an installation using photography, sound, and video to interpret nuclear histories and the secrecy that frames those histories. The installation includes work with invited collaborators Michael Paulus (videography) and Jon Leidecker/Wobbly (sound design). Hanford Reach received funding from Puffin Foundation and Puffin Foundation West in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Mark Auslander, Ph.D. is a sociocultural and historical anthropologist, who works at the intersection of environmental transformation. ritual practice, aesthetics, kinship, and political consciousness, with particular emphasis on Africa and the African Diaspora. His book The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family (University of Georgia Press, 2011) re-reads American racial politics under slavery and post-slavery through structuralist approaches to mythology and kinship. His curatorial work engages with art, environmental crisis, race, gender, and memory politics. He has directed museums of science and culture at Central Washington University and Michigan State University. He is currently a research scholar in Anthropology at Brandeis University, a visiting faculty member at Mt. Holyoke College, and a research fellow at the Natural History Museum.