PLAN C

In the Summer 2010 a group of artists went to Chernobyl to develop a secretive
Plan C...

Before they departed, a rural tractor left the Zone, leading west.

A month later a load of scrap metal was sitting in an anonymous warehouse under the railroad in Manchester, UK.

The group moved into the warehouse and started secretly working day and night on The Liquidator.

After two weeks The Liquidator is ready. The strange interactive sculpture was installed overnight in Manchester’s Whitworth Park.

Photos by Tod Seelie

Once in the Zone, they threw metal nuts. Maybe in search of an answer, they ventured into the abandoned amusement park of the ghost town of Pripyat.

Finally the group located what they were hoping to find, the Red Ride. They picked through the irradiated remains.

One of them got contaminated.

Clue 1: The Zone

The story is not clear at all, and it will probably never be. But in the Summer 2010 a group of six people, who barely knew each other, met in an anonymous apartment in the suburbs of Kyev, Ukraine.

They came from different parts of Europe and the US, and they had an appointment. Nobody knew about their final destination, nobody knew about Plan C. They told friends vague stories about "entering The Zone" and "throwing metal nuts". They had one thing in common: an obsession for Tarkovsky’s 1979 movie Stalker.

On August 10th the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation Administration – responsible for the protection of the highly radioactive area - issued authorization to six US and European citizens to enter the Zone.

Photos by Tod Seelie

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