Oceans in Transformation - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, John Palmesino, Markus Reymann, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Daniela Zyman

Contributors John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Astrida Neimanis, Anne McClintock, Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta, Nabil Ahmed, Laleh Khalili, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Jeremy B.C. Jackson, and more…

Human impact on the Earth is usually narrated as a story of terrestrial and atmospheric modifications, with a focus on stratigraphic markers. Yet what is ultimately at stake in the Anthropocene is the health of our aqueous planet. While sea level rise has become the most alarming and acknowledged harbinger for oceanic catastrophe, a host of invisible and slow processes forcing marine degradation are undertheorized and often experienced and spoken for by different actors and research disciplines.

Oceans in Transformation is a collaboration between TBA21–Academy and e-flux Architecture within the context of the eponymous exhibition at Ocean Space in Venice by Territorial Agency and its manifestation on Ocean Archive.

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12 essays

Four Cautionary Tales from the Future Asian Metropolis

Junyuan Feng and Alvin Li

Singapore, 2030 A tropical storm is brewing. A group of anonymous hackers recently leaked confidential government documents showing that Singaporea…

Underwater (Un)Sound

Emma McCormick-Goodhart

Frequency Fishing It’s only when we dive that we understand. —Pak Harun Mohamad1 “[To] get a sense in air of [a dolphin echolocati…

Muddying the Waters

Margarida Mendes and João Martins

The Azores archipelago has long been considered a site of geostrategic relevance for geopolitical and resource exploitation due to its natural wealth …

Revaluing the Oceans

Jeremy B.C. Jackson

The oceans throughout history provided seemingly inexhaustible fish for people brave and skillful enough to exploit them. Whenever fish catches declin…

Forest Gardens Beneath the Anthropocene Seas

Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz

Earth’s oceans are a permanent feature of its surface. They are visible, even though very faintly, six billion kilometers away in deep space. On a g…

Shipping Oil

Laleh Khalili

Flying above oceanic anchorages near the world’s largest oil ports reveals a tangle of all sorts of cargo ships waiting to bunker (refuel), as well …

Infrastructural Snare

Nabil Ahmed

In March 2019, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) acquired a leaked letter that would signal a new stage in their struggle for …

The Fisherman and the Scientist

Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta

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Monster: A Fugue in Fire and Ice

Anne McClintock

monster From monstrum, monere: to show, warn, or remind by which gods give notice of calamity Hence: monstrous premonition demonstration …

The Sea and the Breathing

Astrida Neimanis

The Weather As an embodied experience and agentic force, weather moves, scars, imprints. Our armpits dampen in response to the heat; our jaws and t…

When Above

John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog

0000 The horizon is the interception of sight with the surface of the planet. It is a space that marks both a position and a transient flux: it is …

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Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, John Palmesino, Markus Reymann, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, and Daniela Zyman

Oceans in Transformation is a collaboration between TBA21–Academy and e-flux Architecture within the context of the eponymous exhibition at Ocean Sp…

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Water & The Sea, Climate change, Extractivism, Pollution & Toxicity, Anthropocene

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Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, John Palmesino, Markus Reymann, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, and Daniela Zyman Editorial
John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog When Above
Astrida Neimanis The Sea and the Breathing
Anne McClintock Monster: A Fugue in Fire and Ice
Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta The Fisherman and the Scientist
Nabil Ahmed Infrastructural Snare
Laleh Khalili Shipping Oil
Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz Forest Gardens Beneath the Anthropocene Seas
Jeremy B.C. Jackson Revaluing the Oceans
Margarida Mendes and João Martins Muddying the Waters
Emma McCormick-Goodhart Underwater (Un)Sound
Junyuan Feng and Alvin Li Four Cautionary Tales from the Future Asian Metropolis

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