Time Zero: How the Atomic Age Never Ended, and the Artists Who Are Exposing It

Time Zero: How the Atomic Age Never Ended, and the Artists Who Are Exposing It

Time Zero podcast producer Sean J Patrick Carney on art and the nuclearized world, from the hyperlocal of the Trinity site to the planetary effects of nuclearism. Cara Despain, Test of Faith, 2022, installation view, New Mexico State University Art Museum, Las Cruces, 2023. Photo: Byron Flesher. Courtesy the artist. This article is part of our The Hyperlocal series, a continuation of the ideas explored in Southwest Contemporary Vol. 11. Two summ…