The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age (2011-12) was conceived of as a Web Art piece, was shown as a slideshow at Sonya Rapoport’s retrospective exhibition at Mills College Art Museum in 2011, and was also presented as a performance and video. It is rooted in the computer printout drawing Horizontal Cobalt (1977), created in collaboration with the Nuclear Science Division of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
The work includes a series of collages that juxtaposes photographs of Rapoport’s family members, images of Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art paintings, and translations into Russian of terms related to nuclear weapons.
This piece was presented as an interactive performance presented during the ZERO1 Biennial 2012 – The Artist Is Elsewhere at the Performance Art Institute in San Francisco.
Later in 2012, Rapoport published a blog post, The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age – Extended, 2012, to document the ZERO1 performance.
The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age, 2011-12. Digital collages for projection, set of 18, dimensions variable.
The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age Performance Guide, design by Marie-José Sat. Digital print on paper, 11W x 8.5H inches.