Sensing Art in the Atmosphere

Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices

Sasha Engelmann

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Routledge
29 April 2022

The Arts: General & Reference; Philosophy: aesthetics; Cultural studies; Sociology; Human geography

Series: Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces

This book engages artistic interventions in the aerial elements to investigate the aesthetics and politics of atmosphere.

Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices traces the potential of artistic, community-driven experiments to amplify our sensing of atmosphere, marrying attentions to atmospheric affect with visceral awareness of the materials, institutions and processes hovering in the air. Drawing on six years of practice-led research with artistic and activist initiatives Museo Aero Solar and Aerocene, initiated by artist Tomás Saraceno, each chapter develops creative relations to atmosphere from the studio to stratospheric currents. Through narrative-led writing, the voices of artists and collaborators are situated and central. In dialogue with these aerographic stories and sites, the book develops a notion of elemental lures: the sensual and imaginative propositions of aerial, atmospheric and meteorological phenomena. The promise of elemental lures, Engelmann suggests, is to reconcile our sensing of atmosphere with the myriad social, cultural and political forces suspended in it. Through tales of floating journeys, shared envelopes of breath and surreal levitations, the book foregrounds the role of art in crafting alternative modes of perceiving, moving and imagining (in) the air.

The book ends with a call for elemental experiments in the geohumanities. It makes an important and original contribution to elemental geographies, the geohumanities and interdisciplinary scholarship on air and atmosphere.

By: Sasha Engelmann
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 331g
ISBN: 9780367614911
ISBN 10: 036761491X
Series: Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 29 April 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sasha Engelmann is a creative geographer engaged in environmental sensing through artistic, collective and collaborative practices. She is Lecturer in GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway University and a long-term member of the Aerocene Community. With Sophie Dyer she leads the feminist amateur radio project Open Weather.