Oceans in Transformation - Astrida Neimanis - The Sea and the Breathing

The Sea and the Breathing

Astrida Neimanis

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Susanne M. Winterling, glistening troubles, 2017. Co-commissioned by Contour Biennale 8, TBA21–Academy, Alligator Head Foundation, TBA21–Residency, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, with additional support by the Research Fund of Oslo National Academy of the Arts. With the kind support of IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and Goethe-Institut Belgien. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection. © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2020. Video still: Courtesy the artist.

Oceans in Transformation
May 2020










Notes
1

The “weathering hypothesis” was suggested by Arline Geronimus to connect the socio-cultural experiences of black women in the US to health indicators, and has important roots in numerous black feminist projects. See Arline Geronimus et al, “‘Weathering’ and age-patterns of allostatic load scores among Blacks and Whites in the United States,” American Journal of Public Health 95, no. 5 (May 20016): 826–833. For more on “weathering” see also Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen-Walker, “Weathering: Climate Change and the ‘Thick Time’ of Transcorporeality,” Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy 29, no. 3 (October 2013): 558–575; and Astrida Neimanis and Jennider Mae Hamilton, “Weathering,” Feminist Review 118 (April 2018): 80–84.

2

Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016), 104.

3

Ibid., 106.

4

Ibid., 111.

5

Kristen Simmons, “Settler Atmospherics.” Dispatches, Cultural Anthropology, November 20, 2017, ; Timothy Choy and Jerry Zee, “Condition—Suspension,” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 30 no. 2 (May 2015): 210–223.

6

Timothy Choy, “Distribution,” Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology, January 21, 2016, .

7

Sharpe, 40.

8

Ibid., 41.

9

Ibid., 40

10

Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 11.

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.