Luiza Crosman and Christoph Weber enter an artistic dialogue about climate governance, planetary forecasting, and the conceptual framework of the technosphere, the nearly autonomous system of energy-metabolising technologies that act as a geological agent.

Their exhibition – currently on display at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York – incorporates pieces that speak both to the widespread character of the climate crisis and conceptually to site-specific issues. Crosman’s video Átropos Sky takes off from the idea of the sky as an interface, while Weber’s work Contact Print (Limestone Quarry of the Cement Industry), is a lifesize depiction of a limestone extraction area. By situating the dialogue in the interdependency of localised human actions, the global technosphere, and the planetary metabolic system (namely anthropogenic mass, atmospheric composition, and infrastructural landscape), the exhibition challenges the idea of a possible holistic narrative and hence a holistic/universal solution.

In the Künstlerhaus exhibition, the artists’ collaboration focuses on the relationships between extraction, architecture, computation, and planetary structures – defining climate dignity as a topic that goes crucially beyond territorial and geopolitical frontiers, complicating any binary or divisive lines.

The Weight of Systems Notes on Planetary Dignity and the Power of Encounters 

Text by Fernanda Brenner about Technoflows: Luiza Crosman and Christoph Weber

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