Challenges and Transitions: Jake Price and Kurt Steger

Inspired by the Day of the Dead, this special event offers two innovative artists’ contemplation of tragedy, recovery, regrets, and equanimity that are part of the human experience.

2pm The Invisible Season by Jake Price

This 2021 acclaimed documentary (75 min) follows three Fukushima residents living within the nuclear exclusion zone for nearly a decade and documents how they protect their ancestral land and heritage amidst ongoing radiation threats following Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster.

Jake Price will also present his documentary short film, Recovery of Memory (3:23), which documents how survivors of the 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami rescued thousands of personal photos and objects—treating them with profound reverence as both the final traces of those lost and essential links to the past for the living.

3:30 Kurt Steger’s Ritual of Release

Sculptor Kurt Steger leads an interactive program in which participants write notes listing their burdens and wishes, which…