“We no longer have roots, we have aerials”
McKenzie Wark, Virtual Geography
McKenzie Wark, Virtual Geography
In the face of the weaponization of weather, of war in the atmosphere, of violence in the air, finding our own ways of occupying an atmosphere become radical acts of resistance, solidarity, and a new and improved understanding of what weather is.
“Weather”, therefore, is not limited to the description of a sunny day. Weather is the visible and invisible, weather is everything everywhere, never limited by a particular space or time. It is the continuous entanglement of meteorological, social, political, individual, and communal conditions, each inseparable from the other. These circumstances together are the weather. It is an infrastructure we constantly inhabit.
When we think that both the weather of a rainy day and the weather of conflict as kindred, then we understand the different ways we occupy the atmosphere materially and affectively*.
*affective | əˈfɛktɪv | adjective relating to moods, feelings, and attitudes. Air is usually depicted as an empty space- which it isn’t.
The space above us is usually depicted as empty- which is far from the truth. Wind, the sky, atmospheres, air- all these spatial fields are densely populated in ways we cannot always see. Aerosols, particles, matter. War, violence, weapons. Pieces and fragments from different geographies. Natural or not, intentional or not, harmful or not, we leave our mark on the sky every day. We have invaded the air. While it is important to understand and acknowledge that things exist and travel in the air, it is equally important to consider how we, as people, occupy, inhabit, and create an atmosphere. This is what this platform is. When things break, move, and happen in the sky, we do not see them, but we temporarily feel them on the ground. If we cannot see these atmospheric transgressions and phenomena, how we do design protocols that allow us to feel them, acknowledge them, interact with them, and find new ways to materially and affectively exist within these spatial fields?
Atmospheric Protocols takes on the shape of a guide to different atmospheric residencies. Our goal is to is create a space- not only for these protocols to exist- but for people to have the space to interact with them and build on them. When we create a community that allows anyone to not only belong, but to contribute to that collective, then we are setting the scene for these important conversations to take place. The co-production of forms of knowledge, of residencies, and of provocations speak to a much larger theme of residing in this space above us and across different points on the globe.
“Weather”, therefore, is not limited to the description of a sunny day. Weather is the visible and invisible, weather is everything everywhere, never limited by a particular space or time. It is the continuous entanglement of meteorological, social, political, individual, and communal conditions, each inseparable from the other. These circumstances together are the weather. It is an infrastructure we constantly inhabit.
When we think that both the weather of a rainy day and the weather of conflict as kindred, then we understand the different ways we occupy the atmosphere materially and affectively*.
*affective | əˈfɛktɪv | adjective relating to moods, feelings, and attitudes. Air is usually depicted as an empty space- which it isn’t.
The space above us is usually depicted as empty- which is far from the truth. Wind, the sky, atmospheres, air- all these spatial fields are densely populated in ways we cannot always see. Aerosols, particles, matter. War, violence, weapons. Pieces and fragments from different geographies. Natural or not, intentional or not, harmful or not, we leave our mark on the sky every day. We have invaded the air. While it is important to understand and acknowledge that things exist and travel in the air, it is equally important to consider how we, as people, occupy, inhabit, and create an atmosphere. This is what this platform is. When things break, move, and happen in the sky, we do not see them, but we temporarily feel them on the ground. If we cannot see these atmospheric transgressions and phenomena, how we do design protocols that allow us to feel them, acknowledge them, interact with them, and find new ways to materially and affectively exist within these spatial fields?
Atmospheric Protocols takes on the shape of a guide to different atmospheric residencies. Our goal is to is create a space- not only for these protocols to exist- but for people to have the space to interact with them and build on them. When we create a community that allows anyone to not only belong, but to contribute to that collective, then we are setting the scene for these important conversations to take place. The co-production of forms of knowledge, of residencies, and of provocations speak to a much larger theme of residing in this space above us and across different points on the globe.
How do
we both bring its components to the foreground and make space for ourselves
within it?
As a collective engaging with these guidelines, we create a space of affection, recognition, information, and resilience, fostering a deeper and collective understanding of atmospheric conditions and phenomena.
As a collective engaging with these guidelines, we create a space of affection, recognition, information, and resilience, fostering a deeper and collective understanding of atmospheric conditions and phenomena.
“The politics of location begins with “the geography closest in – the body”
(Rich, 1984: 212)
(Rich, 1984: 212)
We unconsciously do things every day of our lives that symbolise occupying an atmosphere. Joining a protest, gathering with people, even eavesdropping into someone else’s conversation, inhabiting and creating a atmosphere happens in the most mundane things. We simply make them intentional through the use of this platform.
There is no mathematical formula or science to join the collective of weather. It is there for anyone who wishes to belong.
Aya El Khouri
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Email: ayakhoury17@hotmail.com
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Jinwon Hong
Email: Jinwon.Hong@network.rca.ac.uk
Instagram: jeanwonhong
Email: Jinwon.Hong@network.rca.ac.uk
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Yingzixuan Wang - Chloe
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Email: chloe1228th@gmail.com
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