Subtitled Library for Radioactive Afterlife, Susanne Kriemann’s books P(ech) B(lende (2016) and Ge(ssenwiese) K(anigsberg (2020) are dedicated to the invisibility and after-effects of radioactivity. Produced by several authors, these books-as-library bring together multiple textual genres and forms of representation to explore the “radioactive afterlife”, which notonly indicates the horizon of survival after a nuclear catastrophe, but also the survival of images, given the impossibility of representing an invisible, immeasurable phenomenon.
Streitberger, A. (2024). An Archive of Invisible Intensities. Susanne Kriemann’s Library of Radioactive Afterlife. Image & Narrative : online magazine of the visual narrative, 25(1), 26-41. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/31840 (Original work published 2024)