Title: Humanise Something Free of Error
Artist: Sarah Piegay Espenon
Loose Joints, 2018
Open spine soft cover
137 x 195 mm
176 pages
First edition
ISBN: 9781912719013
“Humanise Something Free of Error” meditates on man’s attempts to influence the climate through weather modification, in the form of a visual research project compiled over three years.
Taken broadly, weather modification refers to man-made attempts to intervene in natural weather patterns, through advancements in science and technology. Initially, this took the form of positive gestures to stimulate food production and alleviate water scarcity, or to prevent damaging weather such as hail or hurricanes. The 20th century saw these processes integrated into military and capitalist technologies: to extract profit from the land, and to destabilize economies, ecosystems, agriculture, and financial commodity markets. The weaponization of the weather and the prospect of environmental warfare raises questions about the ethics of harnessing natural forces as a form of power.
- From the publisher’s website
“Humanise Something Free of Error” meditates on man’s attempts to influence the climate through weather modification, in the form of a visual research project compiled over three years.
Taken broadly, weather modification refers to man-made attempts to intervene in natural weather patterns, through advancements in science and technology. Initially, this took the form of positive gestures to stimulate food production and alleviate water scarcity, or to prevent damaging weather such as hail or hurricanes. The 20th century saw these processes integrated into military and capitalist technologies: to extract profit from the land, and to destabilize economies, ecosystems, agriculture, and financial commodity markets. The weaponization of the weather and the prospect of environmental warfare raises questions about the ethics of harnessing natural forces as a form of power.
- From the publisher’s website
