ABSTRACT
In 2005, author produced A Record of Fear, a series of sound-based artworks made for and about Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (ex-AWRE) Orford Ness in Suffolk. The palpable sense of secrecy, strangeness and renewed occupation' on Orford Ness became the focus for A Record of Fear, a series of audio works, video works, a self-guided walk and book that author produced a decade ago. Monuments of the Cold War, defined as "structures built, or adapted, to carry out nuclear war between end of the Second World War and 1989" are profoundly paradoxical, moreover: often formally banal while radiating fearsome associations. Many contemporary artists sought to explore the uncomfortable monuments' extant from hot and cold war's in Europe, the former Soviet Union, the United States and elsewhere. Orford Ness, like other similar sites, can be considered as generative of narrative/rumor/myth, and technological modes of representation positioned as developing or extending these mythologies as opposed to simply capturing or disenchanting a place.
