The Phil Lind Initiative: Smriti Keshari & Eric Schlosser

Join us in conversation as we step into the chilling world of the bomb, an immersive art installation by filmmaker Smriti Keshari and writer Eric Schlosser. Combining archival footage, animation, and a powerful electronic score by The Acid, this multimedia experience examines America’s—and humanity’s—dangerous entanglement with nuclear weapons. Inspired by the claustrophobia of missile silos and command centers, the exhibit envelopes audiences in a circular, floor-to-ceiling bank of screens interspersed with exposed wiring and circuit boards. Described as “stunning…unique and dazzling” by Entertainment Weekly and “an abstract wonder” by the New York Observer, the bomb exposes the fragility and fallibility of the systems designed to manage these weapons, inviting reflection on their continued presence in our world.  

Presented by UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in partnership with the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.