24 Apr 2026
19:00 - 21:00
T1/2 (Half-Life): Luistersessie met Kamila Narysheva
On Friday 24 April 2026, artist Kamila Narysheva guides a listening session of the sound installation T1/2 (Half-Life), part of the exhibition Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations & Anti-Nuclear Solidarities at Framer Framed.
T1/2 (Half-Life) is a collaborative work by Kamila Narysheva and Vicky Clarke composed of field recordings made at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in eastern Kazakhstan, where the Soviet Union carried out over 450 nuclear tests between 1949 and 1989. The recordings were captured using hydrophones and contact microphones in irradiated rivers, on concrete test structures, and across the surrounding steppe.
The installation is part of the exhibition Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations & Anti-Nuclear Solidarities, curated by writer and researcher Fabienne Rachmadiev, which traces the intertwined histories of nuclear infrastructures, colonialism and resistance, beginning in the Northern Kazakh steppe.
The event consists of three parts: a short talk by the artist about the field recording process and how the piece was composed, a listening session of approximately 40 minutes in darkened conditions and an open Q&A with the audience.
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Exhibition: Between Fires
Behind the geopolitical, financial and militarised structures of the atom, lie the lifeworlds of those directly affected by the cycle of mining uranium to detonating and testing nuclear weapons, turning bodies and lands into storage sites of nuclear waste. Compounded by radiation’s famed invisibility, the carefully constructed invisibility of nuclear infrastructures serves as a double erasure, complicating solidarity and cooperation between affected people and territories.
The historical Nevada-Semey anti-nuclear movement sought to undo precisely this obscuring by uniting affected communities from Kazakhstan and the United States, successfully ending Soviet nuclear testing in 1989. In a particularly moving gesture, this anti-nuclear uprising saw hundreds of people walking together between two pillars of fire, an ancient purification ritual, harnessed to repair radiation’s damage to the steppe.
On show from 13 February until 17 May 2026, the exhibition at Framer Framed seeks to renew this transnational intention of anti-nuclear movements, by connecting irradiated lifeworlds through new and existing poetic, visual, and sonic art, featuring works by artists including buulbuul, Demian DinéYazhi’, Inas Halabi, Äsel Kadyrkhanova, Dilyara Kaipova, Almagul Menlibayeva, Kamila Narysheva & Vicky Clarke, Roger Peet, and Emilija Škarnulytė, as well as research presentations by Kamila Smagulova (Leiden University) and the International Institute of Social History (IISG) – testifying to the temporalities and spatialities of nuclear colonialism across various geographies.
Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities is curated by Fabienne Rachmadiev. The exhibition is commissioned and produced by Framer Framed and presented in partnership with Sonic Acts as part of Sonic Acts Biennial 2026.
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Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
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Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093 KS, Amsterdam
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Tentoonstelling: Between Fires – Irradiated Imaginations & Anti-Nuclear Solidarities
Deze tentoonstelling samengesteld door Fabienne Rachmadiev brengt een gelaagde geschiedenis in beeld, waarin nucleaire technologieën, koloniale machtsstructuren en vormen van verzet onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden zijn
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