v. all that is air melts into city: Speculative Geo-History of a European Emission Allowance – minoritarian ecologies: performance before a more-than-human world

date / location: 1 – 18 May, 2014. London, arebyte gallery, Hackney Wick
performers: 46 dracaena marginata trees, one areca palm, a red trolley, field
data worker (Declan Driver), office data worker (Steffen Michels), me
media: photography, GPS Tracks app, CO2 meter, website, paper prints
website: http://allthatisairmeltsintocity.cc/

Carbon-dioxide (CO2) takes a panoply of embodiments as it circulates between the atmosphere, animal bodies, plants, rocks, motor engines, etc. Various bodies capture, transform, or release carbon-dioxide, contributing to the carbon cycle (Volk, 2008). This vital circulation is all-pervading and ubiquitous but, in a twist of evolution, it is all but intangible to human senses. Through advancements of the climate science, carbon-dioxide has eventually become a major (or minor) public ‘figure’.
project narrative ↠

5-5-all-that-is-air-261 — #allthatisair261, website screenshot, 14 May 2014

5-1-all-that-is-air-_-city-261 — #city261, near-infrared photo, 14 May 2014.

5-3-co2-measuring — measuring carbon-dioxide concentration in the air, ‘carbon convoy’ transportation performance.

5-4-eua — extract of the value of EU emission allowance from EU ETS

1-day-two-a — ‘#allthatisair office’, 2 May 2014

5-6-all-that-is-air-_-city051 — #city051, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) processed from near-infrared imagery, 2 May 2014

air_068 — #air068, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) processed from near-infrared imagery, 6 May 2014

2-day-four-b — all that is air ‘office’ after day four of performance, 7 May 2014

2-day-four-a

5-9-all-that-is-air-_-city111 — #city111, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 7 May 2014

92-b — #air092, near-infrared imagery, 6 May 2014

5-day-nine-c

3-day-six-c — all that is air ‘office’ processing field data and updating the

145-a-city — #city145, near-infrared imagery, 8 May 2014

air_115 — #air115, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 7 May 2014

4-day-eight-c — ‘office’ after day eight, 14 May 2014

5-13-all-that-is-air-_-city-212 — #city212, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 13 May 2014

5-day-nine-b — ‘office’ after day nine of performance, 15 May 2014

5-14-all-that-is-air-_-air198 — #air198, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 9 May 2014

3-day-six-a — ‘office’ after day six of performance, 9 May 2014

5-16-all-that-is-air-_-city290 — #city290, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 15 May 2014

2-day-four-c

city_307 — #city307, near-infrared imagery, 16 May 2014

5-17-all-that-is-air-_-air344 — #air344, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 15 May 2014

city_346 — #city346, near-infrared imagery, 16 May 2014

1-day-two-d

2-beginnings-ends — beginnings and ends of all that is air, stills from performance, 17 May 2014

5-beginnings-ends

7-beginnings-ends

#air015, near-infrared imagery, 1 May 2014