Yellowcake (work in progress)
'Yellowcake' begins at the site of an abandoned film set of the Los Alamos army base, constructed for a fictional Netflix series about the Manhattan Project.
'Yellowcake' measures the half-lives of national and familial fictions.
It features a large cast of wild hares and a recipe for yellow cake.
Trespass excerpt: 1 minute
Definition of yellow cake
1. partially refined uranium ore that is often used as an intermediate step in the production of nuclear weapons.
2.(US)
a vanilla-flavored cake having a pale yellow color from the egg yolks and butter in the recipe.
Uranium is a key element in the continued collective imagining of the u.s. nation-state, part of an oft retold story of ‘inevitability’, secrecy and competing narratives of contamination.
A heavy metal fever dream of very real places -Yellow Cake reckons with the half-life of states imagined and real, exploring collective entanglements with entities simultaneously much smaller and larger than ourselves.