"Region 10 Hanford, 2025 is set at the Hanford nuclear site, Washington USA. Built in 1943 as part of the highly secretive Manhattan Project, the Hanford reactor produced the plutonium used in the "Fat Man" atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, August 9 1945, killing an estimated 39,000 to 80,000 people, which rose to 140,000 within five years.*
The video follows a group at the historic reactor, as they respond to, and grapple with, this legacy left to them. The performance of disaster songs gives voice to the human potential for environmental devastation while at the same time staking a claim for the potential of collective action. Singing, walking and choreographed group movement, build a sense of shared imagination and the potential for hope in the face of the failed utopias embodied by ‘the Site’". - text supplied by the artist
