A SYMPHONY FOR THE SENSES EATING ART FOR PEACE
Chicago, Illinois - In a gesture some are calling “Yum-Yum Diplomacy,” a Chicago based performance installation artist Genevieve Erin O’Brien has built a replica of The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear reactor site at Yongbyon entirely out of gingerbread.
The event is co-sponsored in part by the Nuclear Peace Age Foundation. NPAF president David Krieger announced “Through her art, Erin seeks to awaken people everywhere to their responsibility to rid the world of nuclear weapons.”
“A nuclear reactor made out of gingerbread – now this is a first for nonproliferation,” noted Patrick O’Brien the artist’s father and also a representative of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund. Patrick O’Brien is currently in Pyongyang, DPRK overseeing the international effort to disable DPRK’s nuclear arsenal. Patrick O’Brien commented, “It seems we have a little family legacy evolving here.”
“I want to offer a way for people engage in the nuclear peace movement that is tangible, edible and fun. The installation, titled ’Nuclear Family,’ is a natural blend of my mother’s occupation as a pastry chef and my father’s work and my own performance and installation art. You could call it edible aesthetics,” says the artist Erin O’Brien.
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