SARAH PIEGAY ESPENON Humanise Something Free Of Error

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SARAH PIEGAY ESPENON Humanise Something Free Of Error

SARAH PIEGAY ESPENON Humanise Something Free Of Error meditates on human attempts to influence the climate through weather modification. This is presented 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. 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.

Gathered from sources as diverse as press libraries, online forums and the artists’ photographic archives, Humanise Something Free of Error is an oblique response to these issues of power. Left open-ended through visual associations along the thin line between peaceful and hostile usage of geoengineering. This critical engagement questions man’s ability to responsibly manage powerful and harmful ecological forces.

The experiments evident in this book are inseparable from the impending climate crises of our age and paint an urgent picture of extreme hidden trajectories to control ecological change.

Collecting these images together asks questions about our living relationship with the planet, as well as about man’s relationship with technology – whether we are in control of the processes we have released upon the world, or whether they are now in control of us.

Humanise Something Free of Error is the first book by Sarah Piegay Espenon. She is an artist and designer, and the co-founder of publisher Loose Joints.

This is a limited edition of 700 copies.

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