The work of wind
Subtitle: air, land, sea
By: co-edited by Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin
Contributors: Blackwood Gallery; Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea (2018 : Southdown Industrial Area, Mississauga, Ontario)
Publisher: K. Verlag in partnership with Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783981863581; 9783981863598
Subjects: Human ecology in art; Exhibitions; Climatic changes; Philosophy; Global environmental change; Nature; Effect of human beings on; Winds in art; Weather in art; Ecology in art; Nature in art; Landscapes in art; Beaufort scale; Écologie humaine dans l'art; Expositions; Climat; Changements; Philosophie; Homme; Influence sur la nature; Vents dans l'art; Temps (Météorologie); Weather; Winds; Measurement
Other titles: Air, land, sea
Description: "Across a variegated set of curatorial and editorial instantiations developed by Christine Shaw in 2018/19, the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force becomes a diagram of prediction and premonition in the context of accelerating planetary extinction. The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea appropriates the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force as a readymade index for curating a site specific exhibition in the Southdown industrial area of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and a publication divided into three conjoining volumes. The project is extended by the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, a public program and broadcast series. While the title might suggest a weather project, it is not about wind but of wind, of the forces of composition and decomposition predicated on the complex entanglements of ecologies of excess, environmental legacies of colonialism, the financialization of nature, contemporary catastrophism, politics of sustainability, climate justice, and resilience."-- Page v.
Notes: "While the title might suggest a weather project. It is not about wind but of wind, of the forces of composition and decomposition predicated on the complex entanglements of ecologies of excess, environmental legacies of colonialism, the financialization of nature, contemporary catastrophism, politics of sustainability, climate justice, and resillience." -- Page v.

"This book is published as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea, a variegated set of curatorial and editorial instantations of the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force, developed by Christine Shaw from June 2018 to September 2019. It is the first volume in a three-part publication series, with two additional volumes forthcoming in 2019."-- Title page verso.

"A three-part exhibition and publication series. Opening perspectives on climate change, environmental crisis, and resilience. Presented by the Blackwood Gallery, the University of Toronto Mississauga in partnership with the City of Mississauga." --Website.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1. Land; title: volume 2. Sea; title: volume 3. Air.