Zassho-Cascadia (2021) [single-component output with contextualising information]
- Submitting institution
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Bath Spa University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3385
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Monograph and contextualising information.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
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- Year
- 2021
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.5239331
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- Stephen Vaughan’s artist monograph, Zassho-Cascadia, was originally scheduled for publication in November 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the publisher, Loose Joints, indicated their publishing schedule would be impacted, stating that “our publishing schedule for next year has required realignment, and it is in our opinion that the optimal time to release this book will be at the end of 2021, when the professional events and book fairs that will give this title greater visibility will be running as normal.” Correspondingly, the book will be released in November 2021, but content will be submitted to REF2021 in a digital format.
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Zassho-Cascadia is the culmination of a long-term research enquiry that uses photography to consider seismic histories and rupture probabilities in the tectonic subduction zones of Japan and the Pacific Northwest. It presents the experience, memory and anticipation of catastrophic earthquakes and tsunami in the context of
deep time and scientific exploration.
This research involved a number of collaborative, interdisciplinary dialogues with world-leading earth scientists, earthquake historians and organisations at the forefront of geoscientific exploration. These dialogues provided critical insight and the exchange of ideas, and have facilitated access to unique contexts, materials and expertise.
The purpose of this research is to consider geo-scientific and historical knowledge and to respond to this knowledge through original long-form photographic narrative. The final publication recontextualises Vaughan’s direct experience and documentation of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and presents those earlier research findings with new insight – not as an isolated spectacle of disaster, but within the broader context of scientific knowledge, international historical perspectives and anticipation of a future disaster in America.
Zassho-Cascadia includes multiple photographic series – from the crater of Mount St Helens Volcano to the world’s largest deep-ocean scientific drilling ship during the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment. It bears witness to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, juxtaposing that evidence with the invisible threat of an
equivalent disaster in America. Observations of the Quinault Indian Nation’s village of Taholah, as it prepares to relocate to higher ground, are presented in parallel with tsunami stratigraphy and dendrochronology evidence of the last Cascadia Earthquake. The project also documents the corresponding evidence of this history, in the Morioka-han Zassho book in Japan.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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