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
