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On Uranium Art: Artist Ken + Julia Yonetani in Conversation with Asato Ikeda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Asato Ikeda
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Article summary: In this interview, Asato Ikeda speaks with artists Ken and Julia Yonetani, the creators of uranium art. The Yonetanis share with us emotions that have motivated them to create the uranium art and their interests in Aboriginal stories and worldviews, and in postwar Japanese cultural images of nuclear power and catastrophe.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 11 , March 2013 , e1
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Notes

Sincere thanks to the artists who shared their visions of their art.

1 For more on the artists and their works, see their website:

2 Bridget Cormack, “Artists Discover the Benefits of Two for One,” The Australian, August 18, 2012.

3 “Ken + Julia Yonetani's Uranium Chandeliers,” Phaidon.

4 Elizabeth Fortescue, “Radioactive Chandeliers Commemorate Japanese Nuclear Disaster,” The Art Newspaper. March 6, 2012.

5 Elizabeth Fortescue, “ANSTO Gives Uranium Chandeliers the Green Light,” The Telegraph. October 4, 2012.

6 Johnny Strategy, “Ken + Julia Yonetani Respond to Fukushima Nuclear Disaster with Radioactive Chandeliers,” Spoon & Tamago: Japanese art, design and culture. August 27, 2012.

7 See their exhibition press release.

8 For more on the author's personal experience of the disaster, see Micki Cowan, “Our Campus: One Year Later, Asato Ikeda Reflects on Japan's Triple Disaster,” The Ubyssey. March 20, 2012.

9 On Hiroshima: Photographer Ichiuchi Miyako and John O’Brian in Conversation

10 For more about the campaign, see their website:in Japanese and in English.