︎ Sheffield, UK
Joe Burrows
Joe Burrows is a documentary photographer and visual researcher with an interest in the nuclear anthropocene and recent graduate of MA Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. His practice utilises open-source intelligence, archives, alternative photography and deep research practices to visualise the post-atomic era and the power structures and technologies that enabled and perpetuate it.
Open to commissions and interesting opportunities.
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Excepted Matter
(2020 - )
︎︎︎ Archive
︎︎︎ Investigation
︎︎︎ Alternative Process
︎︎︎ Investigation
︎︎︎ Alternative Process
︎︎︎ Nuclear Ontologies
︎︎︎ Radioactive Matter
︎︎︎ Deep Futures
︎︎︎ Nuclear Exceptionalism
︎︎︎ Radioactive Matter
︎︎︎ Deep Futures
︎︎︎ Nuclear Exceptionalism
Excepted Matter remaps the British nuclear state through exceptional absence at the periphery, identifying nuclearity within the exception. By holding together disparate material practices of the present, Excepted Matter extends the reach of nuclear things back to their geological beginnings and forward to their speculative futures. It follows what is made to not exist through legislation and regulation for the sake of the nuclear state, yet persists as social or cultural pasts and imposed toxic futures. Excepted Matter is an assemblage of atypical nuclear things suspended within the various ontological thresholds that define them, be that cultural, economic, political, technoscientific, or otherwise. What is revealed is a material understanding of nuclearity that is contingent, ongoing, and wildly misrecongnised.
