Dialogue between the architect and researcher Nerea Calvillo, author of “Aeropolis. Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds” (Columbia Press, 2023), and the artist and researcher Abelardo Gil-Fournier, co-author of “Living surfaces” (MIT, 2024).
“Living surfaces” is an investigation of the aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental perspective of media theory. What if every view, every island, indeed every geographical feature of the Earth, could be seen as an object of art? In Living Surfaces, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the Earth’s surface has, over the last two centuries, come to be known and perceived as an image environment.
How can we know the air? “Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds” offers a speculative and interdisciplinary framework for reorienting common concepts of air pollution and air as matter “out there.” Aeropolis opposes regimes of air management that ultimately function to maintain dominant models of world-making that rely on forms of exclusion and inequality and proposes that air be thought of as a city, to unify their social, cultural, political and ecological imbrications.
Activity linked to the exhibition “Apories sobre l’aire”.. In collaboration with the La Mercè Cultural Centre
