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A Monument to the Anthropocene

October 14, 2014 Sasha Engelmann
Museo Aero Solar at Les Abattoirs, Toulouse. &nbsp;Photo by Studio Saraceno.

Museo Aero Solar at Les Abattoirs, Toulouse.  Photo by Studio Saraceno.

On October 11th and 12th I participated in a colloquium at Les Abattoirs, Toulouse on the notion of designing a "monument" to the Anthropocene.  The colloquium centred around a series of proposals for "monuments" from artists like Tomás Saraceno, Adam Lowe, Amy Balkin and Yesenia Thibault-Picazo.  Organized and curated by Bruno Latour and Bronislaw Szerszynski, the colloquium and exhibition included lectures by Christophe Bonneuil, Pierre Chabard, John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Ronnskög and Emilie Hache.  There were also a series of interventions between artists and thinkers: Adam Lowe and Féderique Ai-Touati, Bronislaw Szerszynski and Tomás Saraceno, and Nigel Clark and Iain Baxter, among others.

Tomás Saraceno's "monument" took the form of a partially-inflated lighter-than-air sculpture called Museo Aero Solar.  The Museo is a long-term project involving many participants and communities around the world, and it actively questions our relationship to the thin but highly resilient material of plastic bags.  Participants bring their reused plastic bags, cut them into rectangular shapes, and join them together onto a surface that is later inflated by the sun (sometimes with the help of a small ventilator).  The project is visually stunning and its aesthetic force lies in the fact that it proposes a different way of existing in and sensing the elements: without the use of burners, fossil fuels or gas, solar energy is transmuted into hot air which generates lift, causing the multi-colored Museo to rise.  

Also in the exhibition was a room of prototypes for other solar lighter-than-air vehicles, and the presentation of a publication I edited on the same subject for Studio Tomás Saraceno.  The publication included contributions from Nigel Clark, Myra Hird, Derek McCormack, Kathryn Yusoff, Etienne Turpin, Nick Srnicek, MIT's Center for Art, Science and Technology, Pete Adey, Robert Poole, and Olafur Eliasson, among others.

Tomás Saraceno, Bruno Latour and the students of SPEAP

Tomás Saraceno, Bruno Latour and the students of SPEAP

Publication in the exhibition room of Tomás Saraceno.

Publication in the exhibition room of Tomás Saraceno.

Tomas Saraceno and Bronislaw Szerszynski

Tomas Saraceno and Bronislaw Szerszynski

Me, Bronislaw Szerszynksi and Bruno Latour in the Museo Aero Solar.

Me, Bronislaw Szerszynksi and Bruno Latour in the Museo Aero Solar.

In Monument
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    about 4 days ago
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    about 5 days ago
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    about 6 days ago
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    about 6 days ago
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    RT @SusannahLower: Aerocene Explorer workshop today in #gg3161 #Atmospheres with @sashacakes @RHULGeography ✈️ https://t.co/x9cpolp1xL
    about 6 days ago
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    RT @JolThomson: Preparing a double @aerocene launch @RHULGeography with @RHGeoHumanities @sashacakes and @gracepps ! https://t.co/LGiccYZbbc
    about 6 days ago
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    about 6 days ago
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    about a week ago
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    RT @aerocene: @aerocene Explorers fly only if the elemental dialogue establishes a certain thermodynamic balance, attuning to pla… https://t.co/wU6XxixX06
    about a week ago
  • Sasha Engelmann
    RT @dannycbowman: The sun is bright Solar balloons are dark @aerocene had A nice day in the park! https://t.co/5VmNu1R8j7
    about 4 days ago
  • Sasha Engelmann
    Feeling-into sun, wind & weather yesterday w/ @aerocene @JolThomson @gracepps & amazing students of my Atmospheres… https://t.co/M2RVv8nHVb
    about 5 days ago
  • Sasha Engelmann
    RT @izzymangoes: Taking the lectures for #GG3161 to the sky with @aerocene balloon sculptures! Thank you @sashacakes ! https://t.co/P61mv00f2s
    about 6 days ago
  • Sasha Engelmann
    RT @JolThomson: Remember #becoming_pilots?! Teaching in the #aerocene w/ @sashacakes @tomassaraceno @aerocene and with @gracepps !… https://t.co/1RHXHDM1fo
    about 6 days ago
  • Sasha Engelmann
    RT @Frances61388462: Aerocene sculptures in #gg1361 @RHULGeography @sashacakes @aerocene https://t.co/sWmqoyDKPZ
    about 6 days ago
  • Sasha Engelmann
    RT @SusannahLower: Aerocene Explorer workshop today in #gg3161 #Atmospheres with @sashacakes @RHULGeography ✈️ https://t.co/x9cpolp1xL
    about 6 days ago
  • Sasha Engelmann
    RT @JolThomson: Preparing a double @aerocene launch @RHULGeography with @RHGeoHumanities @sashacakes and @gracepps ! https://t.co/LGiccYZbbc
    about 6 days ago
  • Sasha Engelmann
    Sun, cloud, wind and moon-weather are all looking pretty good for the double @aerocene launch in #GG3161 today… https://t.co/MrtO67vHGg
    about 6 days ago
  • Sasha Engelmann
    RT @ChantelleJLewis: Academics please circulate! We are trying to prepare the nxt gen of black students to navigate PhD funding which w… https://t.co/EJIYMSuWgo
    about a week ago
  • Sasha Engelmann
    RT @aerocene: @aerocene Explorers fly only if the elemental dialogue establishes a certain thermodynamic balance, attuning to pla… https://t.co/wU6XxixX06
    about a week ago
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    about 3 years ago
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    about 3 years ago
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    about 3 years ago
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    RT @R_Trotta: @szerszynski @sashacakes @jolthomson Using neutrinos to detect dark matter in the Sun: exploit an almost invisible particle to see another!
    about 3 years ago
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    RT @szerszynski: .@sashacakes & @JolThomson - neutrino cascades are ecotechnical (Hörl), intra-active (Barad) achievements https://t.co/SEdfyrPZPH #dmeti
    about 3 years ago
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    RT @szerszynski: .@sashacakes & @JolThomson - physicists look deep into ice & its neutrino cascades to see distant cosmos - Dark Matters, Lancaster #dmeti
    about 3 years ago
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    RT @szerszynski: .@sashacakes & @JolThomson presenting on Ice Cube's neutrinos as cosmic messengers - Dark Matters, Lancaster #dmeti https://t.co/lgPPZACJDt
    about 3 years ago
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    about 3 years ago
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    about 3 years ago
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    RT @Climate_Games: #redlines are not for crossing. #d12 https://t.co/97GzX2ueqE
    about 3 years ago
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