all that is air melts into city
All That Is Air Melts Into City is a situated materialisation of the intangible circulation of carbon-dioxide through non-human and human ecologies. Through a ten-day walk across London, a series of potential financial exchanges of carbon stocks is enacted at a human pace, documented via an online data-stream and archived in an installation at Arebyte Gallery. The project questions and examines the intra-action between, on the one hand, the ungraspable speed of contemporary economic flows and transactions, and the temporalities of the bio- and atmosphere on the other.
The mission statement of the carbon emissions market is to progressively reduce the pollution so to meet the sustainability targets. However, this market treats only the amounts of emissions, not acknowledging other participants in this ecology/economy, especially the massive “labour” of the vegetation which ceaselessly captures and stores carbon. The project tries to bring a multitude of actors that are usually not in view and to maintain them in the line of sight. The walks trace a path of between one possible topography of the electronic stock market, the photosynthetic activity of trees and movements of the air by documenting and intertwining their disjoining and conjoining rhythms into a unitary flow of data.
