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DISPATCH FROM AN EXCLUSION ZONE

On March 11, 13 years will have passed since the triple nuclear meltdown at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)-owned Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan. In response to the ongoing ecological contamination, a collective of artists and cultural workers established “Don’t Follow the Wind,” an exhibition that “opened” on March 11, 2015, inside the exclusion zone—the inaccessible area surrounding the nuclear power plant that is over three times the size of Hong Kong Island. Organized by eponymous collective Don’t Follow the Wind (comprising Chim↑Pom from Smappa! Group, Kenji Kubota, Jason Waite, Eva & Franco Mattes), with

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