Godina izdanja: 2018
ISBN: 978-3-9818635-8-1
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Klimatologija / Meteorologija
Autor: Strani

Co-edited by Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin

Izdavač: K. Verlag, Berlin
Povez: tvrd
Broj strana: 336
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In 1806, the British sea admiral Sir Francis Beaufort invented the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force as an index of thirteen levels measuring the effects of wind force. It was first used for the practical navigation of nineteenth- century ocean space; through a system of observation, wind speed was measured by observing how it composes at sea (for example, waves are formed) and decomposes on land (for example, leaves are blown from trees, chimney pots lifted, houses are destroyed).

Across a variegated set of curatorial and editorial instantiations developed by Christine Shaw (Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga) in 2018/19, the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force becomes a diagram of prediction and premonition in the context of accelerating planetary extinction. The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea appropriates the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force as a readymade index for curating a site-specific exhibition in the Southdown industrial area of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and a publication divided into three conjoining volumes published by K. Verlag.

While the title of the project series might suggest a weather project, it is not about wind but of wind, of the forces of composition and decomposition predicated on the complex entanglements of ecologies of excess, environmental legacies of colonialism, the financialization of nature, contemporary catastrophism, politics of sustainability, climate justice, and resilience.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Beaufort Scale of Wind Force: This Land of Forces 9
Etienne Turpin

Cold Wintry Wind 27
Allen S. Weiss

After the Storm 43
Amy Balkin

0 CALM: The Rock Cycle 59
Ilana Halperin

1 LIGHT AIR: Not Everything Can Be Contained 69
Mimi Onuoha

2 LIGHT BREEZE: Stillness in Motion 79
Tomás Saraceno

3 GENTLE BREEZE: The Gardener, the Rubber Tapper, and the Herbalist 98
Barbara Marcel

4 MODERATE BREEZE: Trapped in the Dream of the Other 115
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen with text by Eva Wilson

5 FRESH BREEZE: Meghri/Agarak 138
Pejvak (Rouzbeh Akhbari & Felix Kalmenson)

6 STRONG BREEZE: Cmes’ekst 188
Tania Willard

7 NEAR GALE: Unsettling Practices 211
Tom Keefer and Adrienne Telford in conversation with D.T. Cochrane

8 GALE: Colonialism at the Sea Edge of Extinction 233
Macarena Gómez-Barris

9 STRONG GALE: LUKUMI 247
d’bi.young anitafrika

10 STORM: Unfamiliar Creatures Will be Scattered at Your Feet 285
Jesse Birch

11 VIOLENT STORM: The Gunshots Turned Out to Be Tear Gas 307
Anna Feigenbaum

12 HURRICANE: The Theory of the Fire Ants 333
Juliana Spahr

(K-43)