som8s Marea – 8M 2025

Por Amalia Boselli

Somos 8M. Somos marea, somos río, somos garza que extiende sus alas. Somos marea,
somos muchas olas en las calles de Bs. As.

Somos barro, junco y llovizna. Cielo gris, gotas, nubarrones. Corremos juntas y entra el aire.
Somos globo, somos una grupa de mujeres que sostiene un globo negro después de una
tempestad.

Somos marea, somos río, garza, juncos, barro… Caemos, nos levantamos, corremos, nos
damos las manos, corremos más, se rompe la tela y lo atamos. Resolvemos juntas, siempre lo
hicimos. Nuestras abuelas nos acompañan, nuestras hijas, nuestras hermanas y amigas…

Y vuela el globo. Vuela sobre el barro y cae como la marea del río, que baja, que se mueve a su voluntad. Vuela lo que puede, lo que el níveo sol —que poco calienta— le permite, luego de esta lluvia, en este día gris de lucha colectiva, de resistencia frente a un contexto de discursos de odio.

Defendemos nuestras vidas porque nuestras vidas importan, y defendemos toda VIDA.

Acompañadas de cromoactivismo por @riofeminista, dando colores a los pensamientos con su marrón Río Paraná, sus naranjas que encienden mareas verdes, su rojo huella guaraní, su blanco escuela isleña, su gris sudeste, su amarillo orilla nativa…

Y así seguían los carteles de mensajes que llenaron las calles, con mujeres y disidencias en una voz que grita nuevamente: Somos pueblo, amor y lucha.

som8s Marea

Fotos cortesía: La Grupa

Royal Holloway – Attuning to the sun

On Friday February 28th, long time Aerocene friend and collaborator, Professor and Doctor Sasha Engelmann @sasha_intheair, took to the skies with her pupils at Royal Holloway, University of London @rhulgeography. With just a few scattered clouds, the day provided ample sunlight, allowing the Aerocene sculpture to rise gently over the Founder’s Field. Students were able to hold the Aerocene tether and interact with the atmosphere through the solar sculpture’s gentle movements.

Sasha is a London-based geographer exploring interdisciplinary, feminist, and creative approaches to environmental knowledge making. She has been working in and with Aerocene since before it was called Aerocene. Over the years, her participation involved the development of educational tools and pedagogies with Aerocene sculptures for a range of academic, artistic and public-facing venues.

In 2020, Sasha published “Sensing Art in the Atmosphere” a book that traces the potential of artistic, community-driven experiments to amplify our sensing of air and atmosphere, marrying attentions to atmospheric affect with visceral awareness of the materials, institutions and politics hovering in the air.

Ph: @sashaenglemann

Reel: Filmed by @sashaengelmann, cut by @joaquin.ez, music by Benjamin Lazzarus

Emergencia Territorial Indígena

El viernes 27 de diciembre, un pequeño grupo de la comunidad de Aerocene en Buenos Aires realizó un vuelo aerosolar en Facultad de Agronomía, con la premisa de darle visibilidad a la reciente derogación de la Ley 26.160 de Emergencia Territorial Indígena.

La Constitución Nacional Argentina reconoce la preexistencia étnica y cultural de los pueblos indígenas, garantizando la posesión comunitaria de sus tierras y la entrega de otras aptas para su desarrollo humano, en línea con tratados internacionales como el Convenio 169 de la OIT y la Declaración de la ONU sobre los derechos indígenas.

Sin embargo, las comunidades indígenas de las Salinas Grandes y Laguna de Guayatayoc @cuencasalinasgrandes denuncian que la explotación de litio en sus territorios amenaza su subsistencia, ya que no son informadas, consultadas ni se les solicita consentimiento, vulnerando su vínculo vital con el territorio y los recursos naturales, según lo exige el derecho internacional.

La derogación de la Ley 26.160 de Emergencia Territorial Indígena, genera una situación de enorme desamparo para las comunidades indígenas de todo el país, ya que se frenan los relevamientos técnicos, jurídicos y catastrales de la situación dominial de las tierras ocupadas por las comunidades indígenas, dándole prioridad a los grandes proyectos extractivos.

Museo Aero Solar Lahore – Pakistan

By Mizna Zulfiqar

Conceived and initiated by renowned Argentinian artist, Tomas Saraceno in 2007, ‘Museo Aero Solar’ was realized in order to engage local communities and foster a sense of collective action and environmental responsibility alongside raising awareness about plastic pollution and its detrimental effects on the environment.

Joining an international aero solar community, the 81st iteration of this crowd sourced, community action project was realized through a collaboration between the Department of Fine Arts, Kinnaird College for Women (KCW), Lahore and Lahore Biennale Foundation, with support from the Aerocene Foundation.

Kinnaird, the oldest women’s college of Pakistan with a legacy of 111 years of education takes its name from Lady Mary Kinnaird who belonged to a titled family of Scotland, politically involved with India during the British period. Education of women was a significant agenda for the family; therefore, they raised financial support, even donating personal funds and thus the college was established in 1913. The college shifted to its present twenty-acre campus location in 1938 and is now home to more than 5000 girls who study at the college. Kinnaird continues to be ranked as the premier institute of Pakistan for education of women, where over 2000 students are enrolled every year.

For this multilayered project that straddles the ethos of care, awareness, community action and art; professors, students, staff and alumni of the community from KCW reclaimed thousands of existing plastic bags from their domestic spaces to reuse this notorious material to construct the airy, inflatable and interactive installation which was exhibited as part of Lahore Biennale 03 from 5th Oct – 8th Nov, 2024 at Bradlaugh Hall, Ratigan Road, Lahore.

Bradlaugh Hall, a historic hall constructed in the late 19th century was named after Charles Bradlaugh, a British member of parliament during the late Victorian era, in recognition for his advocacy for social justice and affinity towards India.

Over the ensuing decades, the hall served as a venue for several advocates for the Indian subcontinent, hosting meetings of the Indian National Congress during the Indian Independence Movement.

Over the years the hall has been repurposed several times and is currently being restored to preserve its legacy. The renovation work is actively continuing during the Biennale.

Visitors to the ‘Museo Aero Solar’ installation at Bradlaugh Hall were invited to appropriate the Museo by leaving their mark through drawings and writings on its surface.

This project that propelled KCW to converge as a community was initiated, realized and installed for display within a mere time span of three weeks. By collecting plastic waste and turning it into a canvas for art making and community building, Museo Aero Solar serves as a testament to the power of communication, communal problem solving and teamwork, the foundation stones of collective action. It is a daring proposition to unite plastic bags and human lives alike.

Acknowledgements:

Qudsia Rahim | Director, Lahore Biennale Foundation

John Tain | LB03 Curator

Joaquin Ezcurra | ‘Museo Aero Solar’ consultant

Dr. Irum Anjum | Principal, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore

Project Team:

Project Incharge | Mizna Zulfiqar

Documentation and Social Media Team | Amra Khan | Huda Saeed | Maha Binte Abid

Project Installation Support | Asghar Frances | Ishtiaq Masih

Display Site Project Management Team | Huda Saeed | Tabi Butt

Cornerstone Student Volunteers:

Challenges of the Global South in the face of the climate crisis: Amazon Summit and 2025 Jubilee

From the developing world, we must advance the agenda of peoples and Mother Earth. It is a scenario of cooperation or extinction.

Juan Pablo Olsson Argumedo

Global warming is humanity’s most pressing structural problem, given that we are facing a serious and unprecedented climate and ecological crisis, which is deepening continually. If the commitments to leave behind the fossil energy matrix of gas, oil and coal—the main agents of climate change—are not fulfilled, we could jeopardize the very survival of the human species on the planet.

The current Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has clearly expressed the gravity of the scenario we face as humanity: “The commitments made by countries so far are a recipe for disaster. We are in a fight to the death for our security today and our survival tomorrow. We are heading for a climate disaster. Humanity must choose: cooperate or die”.

This perspective was raised at the International Panel entitled “Towards Eco-social Justice”, held by the Aerocene Community at the Leeum Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea, which featured a discussion on environmental debt, modes of resistance and the conditions necessary for a just energy transition.

The presentation of this panel represents the search for dialogue and integration of different worldviews with the common goal of weaving a web of resistance from the perspective of art, the struggle of indigenous communities, the struggle for the defense of the environment against plundering, colonialism and foreign debt that weigh on the countries of the Global South, in order to build a collective horizon of hope for the future with social and climate justice.

This same diagnosis is made by various world leaders, such as Pope Francis, who in his Encyclical Laudato Si, on Care for the Common Home, alerts us to the seriousness of this problem and the magnitude of the climate and social crisis we are facing and the urgent need to hear the cry of the Earth and the cry of the excluded.

The magnitude of the current climate and ecological crisis that humanity is experiencing is forcefully described in the publication of the Report of the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, presented in February 2022 [1]. Here, it is stated that climate change is already affecting every corner of the world, and much more severe impacts are looming if we do not manage to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses by half, where it is pointed out that climate change is already affecting every corner of the world, and much more severe impacts are looming if we fail to halve Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in this decade and scale up adaptation efforts immediately.

The Report is based on 34,000 studies and involved 270 authors from 67 countries and represented a “code red” for humanity [2], alerting us that human activity on the planet has caused effects on the climate that may become irreversible for centuries or millennia. It provides one of the most comprehensive analyses of the intensifying impacts of climate change and future risks, particularly for resource-poor countries and marginalized communities in the Global South.

A group of scientists recently published a statement in the prestigious scientific journal BioScience in which they warn: “We are in code red on planet Earth. Humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency. The very future of humanity depends on the creativity, moral fiber and perseverance of the 8 billion people on the planet today. Current policies are leading toward a 3°C rise by 2100, a temperature that has not been recorded in 3 million years.”

In 2023, it was the first time in the historical record that the planet’s global surface temperature exceeded 2.0°C above the IPCC’s 1850-1900 baseline. In addition, more than 90% of the world’s oceans experienced heat waves, glaciers lost the most ice on record and Antarctic sea ice extent fell to the lowest levels ever recorded, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

Responsible for the climate crisis and transition financing

This deep climate crisis is responsible: 70% of the accumulated CO2 emissions during the period 1900-2020 originated in industrialized countries, where only 17% of the world’s population is located. Those responsible are the historical, major carbon polluters, which from the Industrial Revolution onwards have developed on the basis of deepening the gas, oil and coal matrix. In this way, the industrialized countries accumulated wealth and power through the consumption of fossil fuels and the gratuitous accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, using it as a free dumping ground for their toxic emissions, seriously compromising the common atmosphere of all humanity and the balance of the planetary system.

Meanwhile, 83% of the world’s population living in developing countries, impoverished and indebted, are condemned to an agenda of surplus population and sacrificial territories, as the powers and corporations of the Global North seek to control the strategic resources of the Global South—such as lithium and fresh water—to carry out a concentrated, exclusionary and unjust energy transition.

Juan Pablo Olsson Argumedo speaking at the Aerocene Seoul Forum, South Korea, September 2024

Ecological Debt of the central countries with the International Community and the countries of the Global South.

The rich and technologically advanced industrialized countries should assume the ecological debt they owe to the countries of the Global South and contribute 70% of the budget needed to decarbonize the world economy and enable the global community to move towards a just transition and a new global energy matrix based on renewable energies.

It is our obligation from the Global South to generate a power of mobilization and articulation strong enough to influence the governments of the central countries and decision makers.

The cost of the global energy conversion needed to achieve the 1.5°C objective is estimated at $150 trillion as an ongoing investment over the next 30 years, at an average of $5 trillion per year. On the basis of their historical responsibilities, the industrialized countries would have to contribute 70%, in proportion to their contribution to the problem, $3.5 trillion per year for at least 30 consecutive years.

The external public debt of the developing countries of the Global South in the regions of Latin America, Africa and Asia will amount to a total of $2.8 trillion by 2020, according to the World Bank’s own data. The cancellation of this debt could be considered as the payment of the first installment of the climate debt that industrialized countries have accumulated with developing countries.

Decarbonizing the world economy within 30 years is the fundamental challenge for humanity as set out in the Paris Agreement. The political decision of the central countries, mainly responsible for global warming, represents the only real possibility to prevent developing countries from remaining indefinitely in a state of poverty, dependence and indebtedness, conditioned with colossal debts for generations, which places them in a scenario of profound vulnerability to the climate and ecological crisis.

The only viable solution to overcome the growing threat to the survival of humanity is for the industrialized countries to recognize their historical responsibility in causing the disruption of the climate and to contribute the financial and technological resources necessary to overcome the crisis. It is for all these reasons that, from the different social, climate, artistic, scientific, academic, student, union, feminist and indigenous peoples’ movements, we propose that the only debt is with the people and with nature, that water is worth more than lithium, that we must generate a global critical mass to protect the Amazon, Antarctica and the Arctic before it is too late.

Considering that the deforestation that is taking place on the planet is a trend that tends to aggravate the problem of global warming, it is relevant to be aware that the Amazon is the largest tropical forest on our planet. It is home to 33 million people in 9 countries and is home to an extraordinary biodiversity. Its dense vegetation and humid soils contain 140 billion tons of carbon, capable of disrupting the global climate if released into the atmosphere. Therefore, preserving the Amazon is a matter of global concern and must become one of the great priorities of our time.

In this sense, the year 2025 represents a great challenge for the countries of the Global South and the agenda of the Peoples and Mother Nature: on the one hand, Pope Francis and the Catholic Church will be calling for Jubilee 2025 for the forgiveness of the debts of poor countries; on the other hand, in November 2025 the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP 30) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in the Amazon. The Ministers of Environment and Climate Change and of Indigenous Peoples, Marina Silva and Sonia Guajajara, are leading the process of articulation with social and environmental movements and indigenous peoples at the Latin American and global level, promoting the call of President Lula da Silva. It is time for us to add our commitment, our energy and participation to accompany the agenda of the Peoples and Mother Earth, because what we do today will determine the future of hope that we can build in the face of a scenario of profound uncertainty.

[1] Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, the Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report. Ver en https://www.unep.org/resources/report/climate-change-2022-impacts-adaptation-and-vulnerability-working-group-ii

[2] Juan Pablo Olsson. “Una alerta roja para la humanidad. La advertencia de la ONU sobre Cambio Climático”. Artículo publicado en Página 12. Agosto 2021. Ver en https://www.pagina12.com.ar/360889-una-alerta-roja-para-la-humanidad

Aerocene Seoul

25.06 – 29.09.2024
Leeum Museum of Art
Seoul, South Korea

Aerocene Seoul has joined the international Aerocene community’s movement, striving for an era where everyone can live and breathe freely.

To share Aerocene’s visions and messages, the Leeum Museum of Art presents Aerocene Seoul, a three-month trans-regional public project that connects Aerocene communities across South Korea as part of its programme ‘Idea Museum’, featuring community activities such as Museo Aero Solar, Aerocene Backpack Workshop, and discursive forums.

Museo Aero Solar

For Aerocene Seoul, stories of ecosocial and political imaginaries have been woven together, joining Museo Aero Solars from Argentina, Thailand and South Korea, to form a vast canvas that carries messages of hope and resistance from around the world.

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Notes and drawings supporting the fight for democracy and free public education have been carried from the Museo built by students at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Escuela Puerta Abierta, Argentina. From the Chiang Rai Biennale in Thailand, ideas towards more just political structures have been shared.

And, in collaboration with various communities in Yongsan-gu, messages of care and change reflecting environmental concerns have been depicted across the Museo, composed of more than 5,000 plastic bags that were collected in Seoul this past summer.

Through more than 40 workshops, participants engaged in assembling these diverse stories into a growing patchwork that currently measures more than 1200 square metres. An enduring process, this canvas will continue to expand with each community that comes into contact with it, and each reused plastic bag joined… moving towards resilient possible futures.

Aerocene Backpack

Collaborating with prominent regional museums in Seoul, Gwangju, Gyeonggi, Daegu, Daejeon, Busan, Suwon, and Jeju, several Aerocene Backpack Workshops invited participants to come together around this poetic tool for imagining a new era without fossil fuels and new ways of decarbonizing the atmosphere. Providing a message of simplicity, community members were also invited to write messages towards change and hope on the sculpture.

The first workshop was held at the Daegu Art Museum, and the chosen slogan was “No More Apple in Daegu.” The participants discussed the topic and settled on the message after considering the regional situation. Apple cultivation has shifted northward from Daegu to Gangwon-do and other areas, causing farmers to migrate to continue growing apples.

Meanwhile, both the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (MoCA Busan) and the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art focused on rivers and water. Eulsukdo Ecological Park, where MoCA Busan is located, is widely recognized as a migratory bird site downstream of the Nakdong River. The slogan “Our Water, Home for All” was chosen to acknowledge that rivers and water serve as habitats for both humans and non-humans.

Participants in the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art workshop created the message “Heart of the Wind, Eyes of the Future.” Jeju Island is known as Samdado (meaning ‘Island of Three Abundances’) because of its abundance of “stones, wind, and women,” and the slogan was inspired by the fact that the wind leaves no trace, expressing the desire to keep the earth clean for future generations.

In the workshop at the Daejeon Museum of Art, where adolescents participated, the slogan “Our River Reflects Our Future” was chosen by comparing the river to a mirror and discussing how they can enhance their ecological awareness in their respective locations.

Aerocene Forum

The panel ‘Towards eco-social justice’ brought together voices around questions of environmental debt, modes of resistance, and the necessary conditions for a fair energy transition.

Aerocene Newspapers

Within the framework of Aerocene Seoul, Korean editions of Aerocene Newspaper I and II have been published. Printed copies were made available during the event, and digital PDFs are now accessible via the Aerocene Library. We thank the team at Leeum for all their work, ideas and collaboration to bring these editions to life!

Aerocene Newspaper I was originally published on the occasion of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, as part of the first step made by Aerocene. As a movement for eco-social justice, adrift on air, floating free from fossil fuels, lithium or hydrogen, Aerocene moves us towards an ethical re-alliance with the Earth and its cosmic web(s) of life.

The second issue emerged from a long-standing collaboration between the communities of the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc with Aerocene and many other diverse and living collectives, over a number of gatherings that took place in 2017, 2020 and 2023.

Acknowledgements

Aerocene would like to thank Sungwon Kim and Helen Jungyeon Ku, with whom it has been a true pleasure and honour with which to collaborate on Aerocene Seoul. As well, thank you to Minjoo Lee, Hyunji Cho, Yeonah Lee, Taerim Kim, Jiwon Grace Kim and the whole Leeum Museum of Art team who were crucial in making this programme possible.

A heartfelt thank you to Seonhyoung Kim, Hanul Kim, Mignon Kim, Yiwon Song, Jihye Kim, Seonkyung Son, and Ye in Han, who have given their time and commitment to working on the campaign of collecting reused plastic bags, building a Museo Aero Solar, and leading an Aerocene Backpack Workshop

Thanks to Alice Studio Project, Jeonsan System, and Urban Collabo in helping us to make the Aerocene Seoul possible.

Thank you to the stories of eco-social and political imaginaries woven together on Museo Aero Solar from Argentina, Thailand, and South Korea to form a vast canvas that carries messages of hope and resistance from around the world. Through more than 40 workshops various communities in and around Yongsan-gu participants engaged in assembling these diverse stories into a patchwork that moves towards resilient possible futures.

From the Chiang Rai Biennale in Thailand Pitchapon Imm Keereekaew, Parn Nattida, Joaquin Ezcurra, Kitipatra Jude Tandikul, Anantaya Chanlertpaisal, Chris Chou, Lena Chang, Kantida Chaichana, Sirithorn Srichalakom, Pakchira Bow, Piroonmas Bo Kajorndechakul, Keerati Lilly Wuttiskulchai, Apiwat Thongyoun, and Tomás Saraceno, as well as Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai Rajabhat University, Chiang Rai Municipality School 5, Chiang Rai Provincial Administrative Organization School, Chiang Rai Vocational College, Singhaklai House, Bedtime Hostel, Lofi Cafe, Budashilp organisation, ThailandBiennale, Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Thailand Ministry of Culture, and the Thailand Biennale curatorial team: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Angkrit Ajchariyasophon, and Manuporn Luengaram.

From FADU UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, thank you to the FADU, UBA and all the National Universities of Argentina who joined in defence of public education, science and the national university system in the National University March on Tuesday, April 23, especially Lucía De Lisi, Graciela Del Pardo, Luisa Beltramo, Cristian Kisler, Mariano Acosta, Paulina Gramón Vidal, Marcelo Trapanese, Alba Maidana, Inés Rodriguez, Angélica Rudolf, and Rosana Mensi. As well for the unconditional support of the teaching team of the Goldenstein Project Chair, led by the tireless Flavia Goldenstein, together with the inexhaustible enthusiasm of Carlos Almeida and Joaquín Ezcurra, from the Museo Aero Solar and Aerocene communities.

And from Puerta Abierta, Buenos Aires, Argentina we would like to thank Joaquín Ezcurra, Maxi Laina, Carlos Almeida, Trixie Levy, Patri Gutman, Paula Schurman, Veronica Weisberg, Ana Williams, Vicky Chillado, Paola Salaberri, Giselle Bliman, Ma. Eugenia Martinez, Diego Divenosa, Carla Mier Torre, and the team of teachers for their great work to support the project. Families who joined: Carolina, Haku D’Ovidio’s mother; Eugenia and Fernando, Ivan Molina’s mother and father; Julia, mother of Nino Levacov Vilhena; Laura, mother of Sofi and Santi Bello; Laura, Olivia Sosa’s mother Lucia; Nico Bustos’s mother; Moira, Rochi Sandor’s mother; Karina, mother of Lorenzo Marin Muchevicz Paula and Gonzalo, mother and father of Juli Ramón; Romina, Vicente Bueno’s mother; Patricia, mother of Oliverio and Fidel Torrella Casares; Cecilia, Vera Rosenberg’s mother; Carla, mother of Ana Luz Ardalla Baglivo Luisina; mother of Jero and Emilia Freytes Mariana; mother of Toto and Lulo Aimaretti; Sabrina, Miranda and Leon’s mother; Giselle, mother of Liber and Teo Cura Suaya; Lourdes, Felipe Moreno’s mother; Andrés and Nadia, Teo Virzi’s mother and father; Viviana, mother of Ochi and Eloi Arrués; Maria Clara, mother of Pepi Mosquera Fernandez; Carolina, mother of Nika DAgostino Lital, mother of Ramiro Nicodemo; Cecilia, Ciro Marchese’s mother; Barbara, mother of Guadalupe Ehmke; Natalia, Simona Camilleri’s mother; Eugenia, mother of Balta, Clemen and Jero Sosa; Fernanda, mother of Dante and Milo Szulman; Iván and Luciana, father and mother of Santiago Lemesoff; and Marta Antonio, grandmother of Ana Luz.

Thank you also to all the communities who participated across the Aerocene Backpack workshops, writing together and flying messages of hope and action. Thanks to the Daegu Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (MoCA Busan), Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Daejeon Museum of Art, Suwon Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gwangju Museum of Art, and Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, for hosting space for these aerosolar bodies to lift up, floating free from fossil fuels, carried along the rivers of the wind.

For their time, energy and ideas towards fairer cycles of water, memory and life, thank you to the panellists of Aerocene Seoul: Verónica Chávez, Flavia Lamas, Juan Pablo Olsson Argumedo, and Matt Prewitt.

A heartfelt thanks to all the communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin, the Aerocene and Museo Aero Solar communities, Action Collective for Ecosocial Justice, the Mirá Socio-environmental Collective, the Geopolitics and Commons Study Group, the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation, the Argentine Association of Environmental Lawyers, and the Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South.

To Joaquín Ezcurra and Maximiliano Laina, who have given their time and heartfelt commitment to the Aerocene and have brought its stories to life in Fly with Pacha, into the Aerocene. To Maristella Svampa, for her participation in the Aerocene gatherings and for enabling many of the alliances that give strength to this movement for ecosocial justice. Thank you!

Fairclouds is initiated with the communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc in Jujuy, Argentina, for freeing cycles of water, memory and life as part of a just eco-social transition. The project has been developed in collaboration with Aerocene Foundation, Serpentine Arts Technologies, and RadicalxChange. For their work to help bring new imaginations of stewardship to life, thank you to Victoria Ivanova, Matt Prewitt, Ollie George, Victoria Bosch, and Tommie Introna. Furthermore, thanks to Jack Murray-Brown, Roxy Zeiher, Joaquín Ezcurra, Thomas Charil, Claudia Melendez, Angela Navajas McCormick, Cara Russell, Kay Watson, Alice Scope, Graven Prest, and Cody Hatfield. To the many hundreds of people who have contributed their imaginations throughout this journey, your acts of weather-reading lead us towards new worldings of water, memory and life.

Thank you also to Aerocene Argentina member Joaquín Ezcurra who was a crucial part in coordinating this multifaceted public presentation, as well as Studio Tomás Saraceno. An incredible thanks to the leading members Lars Behrendt, Sarah Kisner, Manuela Mazure Azcona, Claudia Meléndez Rivera and Gustavo Alonso Serafin, and to Miriam Aller, Victoria Bosch, Ollie George, Dario Lagana, Max Parnell, Anna-Sophie Schmidt and Ilka Tödt. And for their enduring commitment to pushing our creative limits together, thank you to Francisco Alvarez, Giulia Ambrosini, Duncan Anderson, Isabel de Andres Velasco, Martin Araneda, Mateo Argerich, Kim Bode, Sascha Boldt, Thomas Charil, Ben Clark, Filippo Corato, Maria Cristina Crespo, Carola Dietrich, Manie Du Plessis, Charles González, Samantha Grob, Jan Grupp, Sven Hoffmann, Georgi Kazlachev, Tomás Matamala, Olivia Moore, Lea Nikou, Jaime Norambuena, Manuel Ortuzar, Tania Patritti, Matthew Raven, Patrick Reddy, Jazmin Schenone, Niki Sidirourgou, Lasse Skafte, Judith Straßenberger, Alberto Vallejo, Philipp Weber and Davide Zucco.

We would like to thank everyone who has contributed in helping us enter the Aerocene era, including Sasha Engelmann, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centre for Art, Science and Technology – CAST, Leila Wheatley Kinney, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science Department – EAPS, Ludovica Illari, Glenn Flierl, Bill McKenna, Verónica Fiorito, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Daehyung Lee, Daniel Birnbaum, Molly Nesbit, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Bernard Blistene, Lea Zeberli, Pep Julià, Carlo Antonelli, Josep María Llaidó, Agnes Husslein-Arco, Mario Codognato, Marianne Torp, Rutger Wolfson, Joseph Becker, Elizabeth Thomas and Phyllis Wattis, Jacob Fabricius, Rob La Frenais, Lorenzo Malloni, Jean-Paul Felley, Olivier Kaeser, Ellie Buttrose, Studio Tomás Saraceno, Florian Matzner, Corentin Ragot, José Roca, Theo Tegelaers, Adrian Notz, Cédric Carlès, Ewen Chardonnet, Ralph Rugoff, Anna Tilroe, Gayatri Uppal, Sabrina van der Ley, Markus Richter, Mohammad Kazem, Eva Scharrer, Jonathan Watkins, Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti, Francesca von Habsburg, Markus Reymann, TBA21 Academy, Garance Primat, Caroline Eggel, Christiane Rekade, Marco Biraghi, Maurizio Bortolotti, Bert Theis, Juan and Patricia Vergez, Anne Strauss, Meredith Malone, Yona Friedman, Nikolaus Hirsch, Peter Weibel, Filippo Garrone, Frederik Jacobi, Barbara Bulc, EU Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc, Blaz Pongracic, Mark Lawrence, Stefan Schaffer from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), and the artistic creation funding program of France, Mondes nouveaux, Transsolar, the Art Institute at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Erik Bordeleau from the Economic Space Agency, Emmanuele Braga, to Adam Greig, Daniel Richman, Jamie Wood, Yun-Hang Cho, Tzen Chia from Advanced Hackspace CUSF – Habhub, Igor, Tom and Maria Miklousic from Baloni club Zagreb. Luca Cerizza, Sara Arrhenius, For their support to the Exhibition Road interdisciplinary project in London in 2016, Carlo Rizzo, the Imperial College London, The Natural History Museum,The Royal College of Art, Natasha Almeida, Dr. Harriet Hawkins, Thomas Hill, Sam Hertz, Sir Brian Hoskins, Audrey Gaulard, Katie Weeks, Alberto Pesavento, Carlos Almeida, Till Andersson, Till Hergenhahn, Eduardo Ernesto Marengo, Natalija Miodragovic, Yasmil Raymond, Christiana Rekada, Manuel Scano, Alessandro Coco, Claire Contamine, Débora Swistun, Denis Maksimov, Gianluca Malgeri, Jol Thomson, Grace Pappas, Walter Munk, Alicia Andersen, Mariana Saraceno, Martín Saraceno, Michele Saraceno, Antonia Alampi, Belén Alvarado, Udo Kittelmann, Marion Ackermann, Ute Meta Bauer, Joseph Grima, Andrea Lissoni, Pedro Uc Be, María Cohen, Paz Guevara, Alicia De Arteaga, Cristian Herfert, Friedrich von Borries, Juan Ignacio Fernández Marqués, Nikola Dietrich, Mauro Joaquín Aguirre, Galvan Marcos Antonio, Ignacio Marozzi, Liliana Mazure, Facundo Pages, Valeria Pecoraro, Godofredo Pereira, Janine Randerson, Fernando Ribero, Peifen Sung, Marina Otero Verzier, Alexander Bouchner, Ayushi Dhawana, Beate Engl, Leticia Marqués, Sven Steudte, Graham Stevens, Susanne Witzgall, John Ginsborg, Christian Just Linde, Emma Enderby, Diana Wechsler, Hector Jaquet. Boris Groys, Bronisław Szerszyński, Derek McCormack, Lizzie Carey-Thomas, Chris Bayley, Mike Gaughan, Lou Raggett and the outstanding team at Serpentine Galleries, Kiel Moe, Nicholas Shapiro, Liz Barry, Public Lab, Oliver Morton, Olivier Michelon, Pierre Chabard, Sanford Kwinter, Kimberly Bradley, Marco Ferrari, Margarita Ezcurra, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, Pedro Portellano, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Timo Tuominen, Jennifer Morgan from Greenpeace. Also to Michael Braungart, Matthias Schuler, Michael Kezirian, Iyad Rahwan, Jonathan Ledgard, Sara Dean, William Shubert, Red Cross, Red Crescent, Pablo Suárez and to Bruno Latour. And for the generous support of Espace Muraille and Eric and Caroline Freymond.

For their endless commitment, thank you to Tim Neuger and Burkhard Riemschneider of neugerriemschneider (Berlin). As well as to Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (New York / Los Angeles), Pinksummer Contemporary Art (Genoa), Andersen’s Contemporary (Copenhagen), and Ruth Benzacar (Buenos Aires).

And to Antonia, Emi Lou, and Matilda. Thank you

Vuela con Aerocene Pacha en Alta Gracia, Córdoba

En el marco del 19° Ciclo del Posdoctorado CEA titulado “Ecología política, poéticas ambientales y luchas sociales” de 2024, celebrado en Alta Gracia, Córdoba, se presentó la película Vuela con Aerocene Pacha, hacia el Aeroceno. Este film, dirigido por Maximiliano Laina y Tomás Saraceno, cuenta con la coautoría de la escritora Claudia Aboaf en el guion.

El ciclo, coordinado por Claudia Aboaf en colaboración con Gabriela Merlinsky y Daniel Hocsman, se inscribe dentro de las actividades del Centro de Estudios Avanzados de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Córdoba.

Soulèvements de la Terre – Water Village

Aerocene was present at the Water Village of the Soulèvements de la Terre (Uprisings of the Earth) in France from 16 to 21 July. More than 10,000 water defenders gathered in Melle, Poitiers and La Rochelle, in West France, to call for a moratorium on the construction of mega-reservoirs in the region. These mega-reservoirs, built for the benefit of industrial agriculture, constitute a water grab that works to the detriment of small-scale farmers, by reducing their access to already over-exploited water resources and destroying ecosystems.

Aerocene flew an aerosolar balloon in the Water Village with the movement slogan « La Terre de soulève », the Earth is uprising, in support of the local action. Numerous international delegations were participating to discuss the struggles against water grabbing around the world. As Greta Thunberg, who was present at the event, pointed out, “This exploitation of freshwater all over the world – water privatisation, pollution and water grabbing – has exacerbated water scarcity, endangering countless people’s and communities’ lives and livelihoods’.

Mega-basins are giant pools, sometimes up to 18 hectares in size, lined with plastic and filled with pumped groundwater. They are the latest rush forward in an agro-industrial model that has been degrading and drying out our living environments for too long. The construction of mega-basins grabbing water for the benefit of a minority of farmers has accelerated in recent years, partly because of the climate crisis and more intense and frequent droughts.

While this ecological violence has led to conflict and difficulties in gaining access to increasingly scarce water resources, it has also given rise to resistance from movements and communities. For a long time, people have been fighting to guarantee everyone’s rights: environmental, climate and water justice. Support the struggles of our comrades in the Jujuy salt flats, who tirelessly continue to say that WATER AND LIFE ARE WORTH MORE THAN LITHIUM!!!!

Learn more about the event here.

Check the event’s article on Makery.fr

Museo Aero Solar Rosa Río

Museo Aero Solar es un proyecto comunitario y abierto que ha sido replicado en todo el planeta. En los últimos 17 años, aterrizó en 60 destinos, 25 países de todo el mundo en los que se realizaron 82 proyectos desde el año 2007 hasta el presente. Al construirlo e intervenir con múltiples creatividades y sensibilidades, habitarlo o volarlo, descubrimos la oportunidad de viajar con el espíritu, de encontrarnos en sueños y pensamientos, y de llegar a lugares y emociones que de otra forma quedarían inexplorados.

Nacido en conversaciones entre Tomás Saraceno y Alberto Pesavento en 2007, el Museo Aero Solar se despliega en un espacio telúrico formado por seres humanos y no humanos a través de los sencillos actos de cooperación y la reutilización de bolsas de plástico, dando vida a una escultura aerosolar.

Durante su construcción, invitamos al público a dejar su huella, dibujando, escribiendo historias, creando sueños y deseos.

Campaña de recolección comunitaria de bolsas de plástico

Invitados por el CEC (Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas), un pequeño grupo de las comunidades Museo Aero Solar y Aerocene de Buenos Aires, viajó a Rosario para impulsar el proyecto, que apuntaba a recolectar 5000 bolsas de plástico de cualquier color y estampa con la ayuda de la comunidad, mediante los siguientes puntos de recolección:

El CEC
Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Facultad de Humanidades y Artes
Licenciatura en Diseño Gráfico de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño de la UNR
El Centro de la Juventud
La Florida

Continuando el impulso y relación de la comunidad de Aerocene con la ciudad de Rosario, que comenzó hace 5 años en 2019 con la inauguración de los Galpones de Franja del Río, Aerocene y la comunidad Museo Aero Solar aterrizaron en Rosario una vez más en 2024.

Construcción colectiva del Museo Aero Solar

El martes 18 de junio, la comunidad de Aerocene se unió junto a arquitectos, diseñadores y estudiantes y el equipo del CEC. Usando cintas, tijeras y bolsas, creamos de manera comunitaria el primer paño del gran tetraedro, que continuó expandiéndose durante las siguientes semanas.

En este proceso participaron también adolescentes del Instituto Belgrano, quienes aportaron sus dibujos al gran paño colectivo que se iba armando. Entre los mensajes escritos, se pudo leer “Sé feliz” y “Mereces lo que sueñas”, escrito por una estudiante de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de la UNR. Otro grupo de estudiantes de la UNR escribió: “Universidad Pública Siempre”.

En el patio central de la Facultad de Humanidades, extendimos el gran paño y entramos a la burbuja formada por el paño inicial, siguiendo el canto en guaraní que propuso una de las alumnas. Al ritmo de “Ororú” nos mecimos en el aire, con el mensaje de ir juntos “caminando hacia la tierra sin mal”.

La campaña de recolección y re-significación de bolsas de plástico continuó con todo el impulso de la ciudadanía en Rosario, logrando el hito de 2500 bolsas recolectadas el 1ro de Julio y llegando al increíble número de 5000 bolsas aportadas tan solo una semana más tarde.

Inauguración - Festival de Vuelo y ciclo de películas Aerocene

Después de semanas de trabajo apasionado con la participación de más de 300 amigxs y miles de bolsitas de plástico recicladas, la inauguración del Museo Aero Solar tuvo lugar el 12 de julio en un escenario inmejorable: la ribera del Río Paraná.

La mañana comenzó con una sesión de vuelo aerosolar a la vera del Río Paraná con las esculturas de la Mochila Aerocene. Junto con amigxs, corrimos en círculos sosteniendo la enorme apertura de la escultura para llenarla de aire, el mismo aire que todxs respiramos.

Con una suave brisa del norte y algunos rayos de sol, las esculturas negras y transparentes se elevaron junto al CEC, dando la bienvenida a la inauguración del Museo Aero Solar.

A las 12hs del mediodía comenzó una breve ceremonia de inauguración en la que miembros de la Comunidad de Rosario relataron con distintas miradas cómo el proyecto se enmarca en la ciudad, su gente y su cultura. Pero también enfatizaron en un contexto más amplio la forma en que el proyecto convocó a una gran red de instituciones y colaboradores gracias a quienes fue posible llevar a buen puerto este Museo Aero Solar.

Acompañadxs por la música del Dúo Ñapindá, la inauguración contó también con una sesión de danzas circulares con canciones elegidas por la comunidad, sutilmente guiada por la poetisa Amalia Boselli.

Por la tarde, muchas familias se acercaron a ver las esculturas volar, y de la mano de la Comunidad de Aerocene, se dictaron talleres de vuelo aerosolar abiertos a la participación del público.

La exhibición del Museo Aero Solar incluyó un ciclo de cortometrajes del cineasta Argentino Maxi Laina, quien ha acompañado al artista Tomás Saraceno durante más de 30 años. Las películas exhibidas fueron:

– Sobre el aire (2018)

Documental poético y performático sobre la obra de Tomás Saraceno que busca transmitir

sensorialmente el punto de vista de un globo aero solar, su interacción con otras entidades y una búsqueda de un mundo libre de fronteras y combustibles fósiles. (Proyectado en el

Palais de Tokyo durante la muestra Carte Blanche de Tomás Saraceno)

– Futuros posibles (2019)

Documental poético social que narra diferentes acciones realizadas por la Fundación

Aerocene en comunidades vulnerables alrededor del mundo. (Proyectado en el Palais de

Tokyo durante la muestra Carte Blanche de Tomás Saraceno)

– Museo Aero Solar (2022)

Proyectado en la 17 Bienal de Arquitectura en Venecia 2021. Narra las diferentes acciones

del proyecto Museo Aero Solar alrededor del mundo.

Charla por la justicia ecosocial y Teatro de sombras

El sábado 13 de julio, un día después de la inauguración, sucedieron cosas hermosas: recibimos a nuestra amiga Mel Argento, investigadora CONICET y militante ecofeminista quien forma parte de Abogados Ambientalistas, del Colectivo de Acción por la Justicia Ecosocial y el Grupo de Geopolítica y Bienes Comunes.

En su exposición, Mel expresó la alegría de compartir con la comunidad de Aerocene este proyecto artístico y comunitario en un contexto actual de crisis ambiental y socioeconómica. Subrayó la necesidad de nuevas formas de pensar y actuar, enfocándose en la justicia ambiental y social, y criticó las soluciones tecnológicas que benefician solo a unos pocos privilegiados. En cambio, Mel promovió la gestión colectiva de bienes y energías, inspirándose en prácticas indígenas y en el Museo Aero Solar. Mel resaltó la importancia del arte como herramienta para imaginar y construir futuros posibles, basados en la interdependencia y el cuidado mutuo, proponiendo un cambio hacia una sociedad más justa y sostenible para todos.

La poetisa Amalia Boselli estuvo a cargo del taller de teatro de sombras. Por medio de sombras proyectadas sobre el Museo Aero Solar, Ama experimentó con esta antiquísima técnica para fomentar la imaginación, la narración y la colaboración. Luego, frente al río, Ama llevó a cabo también un taller de vuelo poético y exploración de sensibilidades mediante el vuelo aero solar.

Agenda Aero Solar Rosarina

Las actividades propuestas por el CEC continuaron luego del evento inaugural el 12 de julio.

El 13 de julio, adolescentes se reunieron en una matiné de invierno con presentaciones de bandas en vivo, mientras que el 19 de julio, el ciclo “Solo por hoy” presentó un choque musical con CKCK Dúo y Puka en DJ set.

El 20 de julio, un encuentro enfocado en la ecología permitió explorar la biodiversidad de los humedales a través de actividades lúdicas y una estación de termofusión, reutilizando bolsas plásticas del Museo.

El ciclo “Solo por hoy” continuó el 26 de julio con Mingus Motion y Sofi Casadey, seguido el 27 de julio por el “Club de desconexión”, un espacio para la relajación, yoga y meditación.

En agosto, el 2 tuvo lugar el desfile cultural de Zarpar con Mike Amigorena y Manu Piró, mientras que el 3 se celebró el Festival de las Infancias, y el cierre del 10 de agosto combinó deporte, poesía y fotografía en un evento final lleno de creatividad y reflexión.

Créditos del Proyecto Museo Aero Solar Rosa Río

Desde Aerocene queremos destacar la participación de Ofelia Fernández, Amalia Boselli y Gabriela Sorbi que se suman por primera vez en este MAS Rosario creando “La grupa”, un equipo femenino e interdisciplinario que se puso al hombro el proyecto en momentos de zozobra y le dieron una impronta muy particular.

Queremos expresar un enorme agradecimiento a Maxi Laina que a la distancia, con cercanía, inspiró y coordinó la comunidad del Museo Aero Solar Rosario desde Reggio Calabria, Italia.

Video MAS Rosa Río

Dirección Maxi Laina

Producción Ofelia Fernández

Producción Aerocene Joaquín Ezcurra

Coordinación construcción MAS Carlos Almeida

Cámara y Edición Gabriela Sorbi

Cámara Cec Mariano Ferrari

Teatro de sombras, taller Futuros Posibles y danzas circulares Amalia Boselli

Musica Andina: Ezequiel Laina, Martin Torres Manzur y Germán Juárez

Comunidad Museo Aero Solar

Amalia Boselli
Ofelia Fernández
Gabriela Sorbi
Mel Argento
Maxi Laina
Carlos Almeida
Susana Díaz Paradot
Mica Almeida
Marco Buenavista
Joaquín Ezcurra

Equipo CEC

Ernestina Fabbri, Guillermo Calluso, Guillermo Pasquini, Fernanda Rivero, Julieta Rucq, Lilén Pelozzi, Jonatan Morabes, Magalí Drivet, Josefina Cricco, Facundo Lencina, Germán Mengo, Fernanda Mordini, Daniela Llanos, Adrian Chicando, Soledad Ferreyra, Angeles Vieyra, Hernan Altamirano, Martin Fiumato, Daniela Llanos, Lucas Roldán, Vladimir Lass.

Instituciones Colaboradoras

Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas (CEC)

Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Facultad de Humanidades y Artes: Licenciatura y Profesorado en Bellas Artes Escultura III, Profesora Licenciada Susana Daz Paradot

Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño UNR, Licenciatura en Diseño Gráfico,

Licenciada Fabiana Miorini

El Centro de la Juventud

La Florida

Galpón 11

Escuela Secundaria Belgrano

Secretaría de Ambiente y Espacio Público

Fundación Rosario

Participantes Museo Aero Solar Rosa Río

Agostina Salvidio Sánchez

Agustina Daiana Campos

Agustina Desmedt

Agustina Gregoris

Ailén Gallina

Alma García Cimolai

Amalia Lanzón

Ana Candela Pueblas

Ángel Villar Damián

Angela Porrini

Angie Amarillo

Anna Abril Cipollone

Catalina Savino

Celeste Casals

Cintia Colazzo

Claudia Monzón

Cristina Tenaglia

Dante Spinozzi

Delfina Giovanetti

Emilia Casaccia

Emma San Millan

Eugenia Lujan Illanes

Eugenia Marelli

Facundo López

Fátima Cardozo Silguero

Florencia Avalos

Florencia Boccaccio

Frida Bertolotti

Gabriela Elias

Galo Martinez Dorr

Gaspar Losno

Gerónimo Abdo

Gonzalo Címbaro

Guadalupe Ordazzo Haidar

Guida Vincenzo

Ignacio Maderna

Ignacio Nuñez

Ivo Di Chiazza

Juan Pereira Marques

Julieta Byorkman

Lara Jazmín García

Leonardo Suárez Guzmán

Leonela Cherara

Lila Ruggeri Sfascia

Livia Litmanovich

Luca Bernardi

Lucia Uzinger

Magdalena Belcastro

Maia Ludueña

Maite Ayala

Maria Balaguer

María J Navarro

María Julia Gimenez

Mariquena Yuan

Martina Amici

Mateo Quintero

Matías Achilli

Maylén Abregú

Melina Avalos

Milagros Nuñez

Paola Murias

Pilar Gorischnik

Regina Gutierrez

Rocío Tarabán

Rosaria Di Bartolomeo

Sofia Pasetto

Sofía Espinoza

Sofía López

Sofía Sinner

Sol Aranda

Solana Guereta

Sophia Ruesca

Susana Rasclard

Valentina Castillo

Venecia Puz

Victoria Isabel Naharro

Yazmin Otero

Marcha Federal Universitaria

DEFENDAMOS LA EDUCACIÓN PÚBLICA ARGENTINA 🩵☀️🤍🩵

El martes 23 de abril marchamos con la escultura aero solar Aerocene intervenida con esta leyenda en la FADU, UBA, en el marco de la construcción del Museo Aero Solar de la Cátedra Proyectual Goldenstein.

“Va tomando aire y vuelo una sociedad que se está despertando”

Carlos Almeida Tweet

Las palabras de Carlos Almeida @carlosalmeida.unsam nos recuerdan que la lucha por la educación pública es una lucha por el futuro de nuestro país.

Nuestra participación en la Marcha fue retratada por el diario Página 12!

https://www.pagina12.com.ar/731579-la-lucha-simbolica-por-la-marcha-educativa

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