xl, 233 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some colour) 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2018
21st century
Notes:
New Zealand author
Artists include: Francis Alÿs ; Billy Apple ; Douglas Bagnall ; Sarah and Joseph Belknap ; Ursula Biemann ; Ursula Biemann and Mo Diener ; Bjarki Bragason ; John Constable ; Corby and Bailey ; Philip Dadson ; Marcel Duchamp ; Olafur Eliasson ; F4 Collective (Susan Jowsey and Marcus, Jesse, and Mercy Williams) ; Hans Haacke ; Joyce Hinterding and David Haines ; Mark Harvey ; Joyce Hinterding and David Haines ; William Hodges ; Amy Howden-Chapman ; Thorbjørn Lausten ; Zune Lee ; Len Lye ; David Medalla ; Fujiko Nakaya ; Andrea Polli ; Andrea Polli and Rod Gdovic ; Random International ; Cameron Robbins ; Natalie Robertson ; Tomás Saraceno ; Karolina Sobecka ; Alan Sonfist ; Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski ; theweathergroup_U ; Latai Taumoepeau ; Titri and Tui ; Anaïs Tondeur ; Leonardo Da Vinci ; Layne Waerea ; Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas ; Robert Watts
Contents:
Live weather, systems and science -- Sensing the weather -- Weather envisioning : visualization and mapping -- Meteorological art instruments -- Social meteorology and participatory art -- Climate dialogues : acts into nature -- Weather materialized : ice as medium -- Speculative weathers : cosmic clouds and solar winds
Summary:
"In a time of climate crisis, a growing number of artists use weather or atmosphere as an artistic medium, collaborating with scientists, local communities, and climate activists. Their work mediates scientific modes of knowing and experiential knowledge of weather, probing collective anxieties and raising urgent ecological questions, oscillating between the "big picture systems view" and a ground-based perspective. In this book, Janine Randerson explores a series of meteorological art projects from the 1960s to the present that draw on sources ranging from dynamic, technological, and physical systems to indigenous cosmology"--Jacket flap