CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/22/2021

Celebrate Earth Day in the Anthropocene with 'Connectedness'

Today we’re celebrating Earth Day with this photo of Tomás Saraceno’s 2015 “Aerocene 5.2 m,” an aerosolar sculpture that can only be made buoyant by the heat of the sun. It is one work among many in the interdisciplinary Aerocene artistic community (founded and initiated Saraceno in 2015 and located around the world) that seeks to “reactivate a common imaginary for an ethical collaboration with the atmosphere and the environment, in an envisioned era free from borders, free from fossil fuels,” according to Connectedness: An Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Strandberg Publishing’s fascinating new survey of humanity's impact on the planet. Featuring contributions from Björk, Anders Blok, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Bill McKibben, Saskia Sassen, Greta Thunberg, Alice Waters and others, this monumental 416-page volume was published to accompany the exhibition at the Danish Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Architectural Biennale.