Absolute humidity
By: ed. Tess Maunder
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Hardworking Goodlooking
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Parañaque City, Philippines; Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Art and meteorology; Artists; Interviews; Climatology; In art; Environment (Art); Weather in art; Art et météorologie; Artistes; Entretiens; Temps (Météorologie) dans l'art
Description: Absolute Humidity is a volume that aims to re-position conversations about the climate, weather and the environment by placing artist's voices at the centre of the discussion. The publication focuses on contemporary artists from the Asia-Pacific region, including twenty-eight new conversations and other contributions that form a new constellation of inquiries. Through this project, contributors discuss how ideas surrounding weather, the environment and the climate be conceptualised by artists producing fresh ideas surrounding artistic agency. Bringing together some key voices from this region, this book includes practices that span from Jakarta to Brisbane, from Ho Chin Min City to Mumbai, from Hong Kong to Dubai and more. For example, Bahar Behbahani discusses her love of Islamic design through a de-colonial lens, looking at the nuanced role of water within these histories in Iran, and how this folds into her artistic practice. Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan speak about living between the Philippines and Australia and how this has informed their life and art practice, using Filipino Balikbayan boxes as an analogy for migration. Zheng Bo straddles the space between politics and the environment in his work, in this conversation, we delve into his favourite type of plant, among other things. Hitman Gurung & Sheelasha Rajbhandari discuss the important work they have done in the wake of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake and the ongoing community cultural development that they continue to do for their city. Lantian Xie reflects sensitively on the role of privilege in relation to heat-politics in the gulf, this and more stories fold into the Absolute Humidity volume.
Notes: A Hardworking Goodlooking Book.

Includes biographies of artists.

Contributors: Angela Tiatia and [34 others].

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Table of contents: title: Editor's note; title: Editor's note  -- Tess Maunder -- Folds; title: Wonderful uncertainty  -- RAQS Media Collective; title: Trusted tropical faititili a motu tropical thunder  -- Lucreccia Quintanilla ; Léuli Māzyār Luna'i Eshrāghi; title: Missing  -- Brenda L. Croft -- Interviews; title: Ravi Agarwal  -- Tess Maunder ; Ravi Agarwal; title: Bahar Behbahani  -- Tess Maunder ; Bahar Behabahni; title: Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan  -- Tess Maunder ; Isabel Aquilizan ; Alfredo Aquilizan; title: Zheng Bo  -- Tess Maunder ; Zheng Bo; title: Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandari  -- Tess Maunder ; Hit Man Gurung ; Sheelasha Rajbhandari; title: Lantian Xie  -- Tess Maunder ; Lantian Xie; title: Chantal Fraser  -- Tess Maunder ; Chantal Fraser; title: Map Office ; title: Tess Maunder ; Map Office --; title: Rirkrit Tirvanija  -- Tess Maunder ; Rirkirt Tiravanija; title: Tintin Wulia  -- Tess Maunder ; Tintin Wulia; title: Brian Robinson  -- Tess Maunder ; Brian Robinson; title: Angela Tiatia  -- Tess Maunder ; Angela Tiatia; title: Okin Collective  -- Tess Maunder ; Okin Collective; title: Ho Rui An  -- Tess Maunder ; Ho Rui An; title: Ayesha Jatoi  -- Tess Maunder ; Ayesha Jatoi; title: Liu Yujia  -- Tess Maunder ; Liu Yujia; title: Drew Kahu'āina Broderick  -- Tess Maunder ; Drew Kahu'āina; title: Elisa Jane Carmichael  -- Tess Maunder ; Elisa Jane Carmichael; title: Sid M. Dueñas ; title: Tess Maunder ; Sid M. Dueñas --; title: Tita Salina  -- Tess Maunder ; Tita Salina; title: Joy Lehuanani Enomoto  -- Tess Maunder ; Joy Lehuanani Enomoto; title: Trevor Yeung  -- Tess Maunder ; Trevor Yeung; title: Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty  -- Tess Maunder ; Rupali Gupte ; Prasad Shetty; title: Bonita Ely  -- Tess Maunder ; Bonita Ely; title: Gulf Labor Coalition  -- Tess Maunder ; Gulf Labor Coalition; title: The Karrabing Film Collective  -- Tess Maunder ; The Karrabing Film Collective; title: Tuan Andrew Nguyen  -- Tess Maunder ; Tuan Andrew Nguyen; title: Taloi Havini -- Tess Maunder ; Taloi Havini.