I could ask you anything
Ju has been at the heart of Blast Theory since the very beginning, so with Ju’s move to creating work independently, it seemed like a good time to think about how Blast Theory ticks.
The things that made us: spontaneous participation
Disobedient participants, or rather people who find their own way into our work, have become a strength of some of our work: a heart that is largely invisible to the outside, which we cherish greatly.
The things that made us: learning to back it up
After an early incident where the first year and a half of all of Blast Theory’s files were accidentally deleted in an Amstrad floppy drive, we thought that for a long time we had our shit together with archiving and backups.
Blast Theory video
Blast Theory has a long history of making social and political work, drawing on popular culture, performance, technology and games.
One Year On – A Force Of Nature, By Force Of Will Power – The Thing I’ll Be Doing For The Rest Of My Life
A year ago Matt began editing the footage from Nagoya, of the trawler being moved onto the land, through the night and across the park – 5 days to edit, then straight back to Japan on the 5th of August, to install onto 40 tablets in Japanese and English, train invigilators, meet press, thank everyone involved and open to the public on 10th August 2013.
Disaster utopia
The next day I did an interview with Daisuke Oono, a journalist with NHK who is from the Sendai area.
To Kesennuma: ships out of place and fishermen
Up at 5am today to head north by car.
Trip to Sendai
Some days make me realise all over again what a privilege it is to be an artist.