Can we harness our knowledge of natural systems and cycles to predict, adapt, and imagine?
What is the relationship between knowledge, prediction, and action? The destructive effects of human impacts on the Earth—and scientific consensus about them—urge decisive action on climate change, the pace of social transformation towards climate justice is slow. How can artists facilitate observation of human impact on the Earth? What would it mean to make observation a truly public enterprise? How can observation lead to action? What kinds of observation are most urgent at this moment? We ask these questions as witnesses to, and participants in, artistic and research projects that seek to materialize human impacts on earthly environments, respond to forces of wind and weather, adopt adaptive reuse, and invest in creative infrastructures that act in consort with (rather than in opposition to) the dynamics of our planet.
The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea
Museo Aero Solar
Liberation of the Chinook Wind
Aerocene Explorer Workshop
Observatory for Riparian Repose [In Reaching, the Sun collapsed into the Sea]
The pen moves across the earth: it no longer knows what will happen, and the hand that holds it has disappeared
FALSEWORK
Reading the River: Session 1
Reading the River: Session 2
Reading the River: Session 3
Forecast
Speculation