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Screenspace
installation, online-publication
YEAR:
2021
TYPE:
Fabric and video installation, Rice Architecture, Houston TX, January 2021.
LINKS:
Rice News
SENT-Folder publication
2021
TYPE:
Fabric and video installation, Rice Architecture, Houston TX, January 2021.
LINKS:
Rice News
SENT-Folder publication
INFO:
Screenspace is a temporary installation for collective weather-watching; a rumination on the politics of the weather report. It re-interprets James Turrell’s climate-ambivalent Skyspace in Houston, for more troubled skies.
Today, our prevalent sky-monitoring optic is that of the infrared satellite image: used to capture both fast and slow temporalities of weather and climate. The 16:9 aspect-ratio regulates a baggy blackout fabric cloud, suspended overhead for upward projection.
Plug-and-play: faux berm recliners take variable configurations under this projection canopy, and can be wheeled outside in good weather. Sunrise and Sunset screenings feature stock sky screensavers and weather channel footage, spliced with Houston’s past hurricane infrared imagery.
Screenspace is a temporary installation for collective weather-watching; a rumination on the politics of the weather report. It re-interprets James Turrell’s climate-ambivalent Skyspace in Houston, for more troubled skies.
Today, our prevalent sky-monitoring optic is that of the infrared satellite image: used to capture both fast and slow temporalities of weather and climate. The 16:9 aspect-ratio regulates a baggy blackout fabric cloud, suspended overhead for upward projection.
Plug-and-play: faux berm recliners take variable configurations under this projection canopy, and can be wheeled outside in good weather. Sunrise and Sunset screenings feature stock sky screensavers and weather channel footage, spliced with Houston’s past hurricane infrared imagery.
