Post Bellum Support
Post-Bellum Support Steel 2013 85 x 48 x 44 inches / 216 x 121 x 112 cm
Month: May 2019
The Secret Letter
The Secret Letter Steel 2016 72 x 48 inches / 182 x 121 cm The source of this work is a letter dated 1960, found in the Canadian National Defence War Book.
Drop the Needle
Frlan was artist-in-residence in 2016 at the Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum. She created Drop the Needle by correlating 11 Steps to Survival, a guidebook on how to prepare for nucear war, published by Emergency Planning Canada in 1961, to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) emergency broadcast studio located in the Diefenbunker. The copper-stamped labels
The Secret Loom
The Secret Loom Steel 2016 83 x 55 x 177 inches / 210 x 140 x 450 cm Teletypewriter located in the teletypewriter repair shop of the Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum.
The Value of Life (Weighing, Measuring, Marking)
The Value of Life (Weighing, Measuring, Marking) 2016 Steel, aircraft cable, lacquer 96 x 71 x 30 inches (245 x 180 x 75 cm) Installed in the Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum. The Value of Life: The State of the Art 1985, published by Emergency Planning Canada.
DEW Line (Danger! Emergency! Warning!)
DEW Line (Danger! Emergency! Warning!) Steel, aircraft cable 2016 Siren 1 Siren 2 Siren 3 Control station The D.E.W. Line, or Distant Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska set up to detect incoming bombers between 1957 and 1985. Frlan’s air raid sirens
Beware the Blast Wave – Attention à l’onde de choc
Step 1: Know the Effects of Nuclear Explosions A nuclear explosion releases vast amounts of energy in three forms: (a) Light and heat; (b) Blast; (c) Radiation. The blast wave travels more slowly than the heat flash. Several seconds may pass after you have seen the light or felt the heat before the blast wave
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Radioactive Fallout – Retombées radioactives
Step 2: Know the Facts about Radioactive Fallout If a nuclear weapon is exploded on, or near, the ground, the danger from radioactive fallout is greatest. The force of the explosion may make a crater up to a mile wide and to a depth of one hundred feet. Millions of tons of pulverized earth, stones,
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Battery-powered Radio – Appareil radio à piles
Step 3: Know the Warning Signal and have a Battery-Powered Radio The ATTACK WARNING Signal — A wailing (undulating) tone on the sirens of three to five minutes duration or short blasts on horns or other devices repeated as necessary means: An attack on North America has been detected; Warning of fallout. WHEN YOU HEAR THE WARNING SIGNAL, YOU
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Bomb Shelter – Abri anti-aérien
Step 4: Know How to Take Shelter Shelters of the type commonly used in Europe during the Second World War would not provide protection against the blast of a nuclear explosion. They were designed to withstand short shock pressures lasting something like 1/100th of a second. Shelters designed to withstand the pressures created by a