Doomsday March
Peter d’Agostino © 2003-2025
Video Installation Preview: 4min loop Edition: 5+2 AP
A peace march protesting nuclear proliferation in Australia, 2003 is juxtaposed with scenes from the 1959 film, On the Beach.
(The film portrays a post-World War III scenario in which Australians, on this remote continent, are the last of humankind, awaiting the fatal effects of radiation that has engulfed the rest of the world.)
Now in 2025, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight - closest ever to human extinction. The factors include nuclear risks along with the climate crisis, wars, diseases, and disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence (AI).
D’Agostino was born in July 1945, ‘between the bombs’: A-bomb test in the U.S. July 16; and the bombings of Hiroshima, August 6, Nagasaki, August 9. Over the decades, his videos have been created at significant historic sites, including Hiroshima’s Peace Ceremonies- documented in TRACES: a multi-media installation of the Atomic Age (1995/2020).