Repatterning » Repatterning 7/1 · Sasha Engelmann
Repatterning 7/1 · Sasha Engelmann June 4, 2023
Sasha Engelmann talks about satellites and oracles, radio and air, sustainability and choices, and sitting with the compromises.
“I’ve spent many dark nights listening to transmissions from all over the world and recording them — and having the best time. I think there is something about this ephemerality and planetary collectivisation that’s possible through radio that’s really not that possible through social media, or other kinds of technologies.”
Sasha Engelmann (holding antenna)
Sasha Engelmann is a London-based geographer exploring interdisciplinary, feminist and creative approaches to environmental knowledge making. Her current project, Advancing Feminist and Creative Methods for Sensing Air and Atmosphere, explores the value of feminist principles, creative practices, and design justice tools for citizen-led monitoring of air quality and weather patterns. Her first book, Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices (Routledge, 2020) investigated the role of artistic and activist initiatives in expanding aesthetic and political orientations toward atmosphere, aeromobility, and the elements. Sasha is an active member of the Aerocene Community and a co-founder (with Sophie Dyer) of the feminist satellite imaging project open-weather. She is Senior Lecturer in GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway University of London where she teaches at the intersection of geography and the arts and humanities.
Links:
- Sasha Engelmann
- LES-1 Satellite and Signal Tide
- NOAA satellites
- Terra nullius
- NOAA-2 satellite
- Graveyard orbit
- Blog post about NOAA-2 “returning from the dead,” and NOAA-2 signal reception technical details
- Club of Rome and The Limits to Growth
- Sophie Dyer
- Open-weather
- Automatic picture transmission
- Satellite Séance
- Anton Mesmer
- Open-weather COP26 Nowcast
- COP26: 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference
- Astrida Neimanis
- Jennifer Mae Hamilton
- Tessa Zettel
- Amateur radio
- Margaretta D’Arcy and Radio Pirate Woman
- Open-weather how-to guide on Publiclab
- Bill Liles NQ6Z
- QRZ
- ‘Dryden Goodwin’s Breathe: art, science and the invisible’
- Dryden Goodwin
- Frank Kelly
- Invisible Dust
- Ella Kissi Debrah
- Tomás Saraceno and Aerocene
- Centre for the GeoHumanities
- UK university strikes
- Google Earth
- Max Liboiron, Pollution Is Colonialism
- Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)
- Open-weather feminist handbook
- Lina Džuverović
- ‘Why collaborate? Network Formation, Reproduction, Access’ — panel discussion
- Abhijan Toto
- The Forest Curriculum
- Janis Jefferies: ‘Pattern, Patterning’ — from Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social (edited by Celia Lury, Nina Wakeford)
- Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
- Javier Auyero And Débora Alejandra Swistun, Flammable
Repatterning is a series of talks about being turned inside out. It is about the experience of being radically upended, the work of dreaming, and the ghosts that travel along the way. Concentric circles rippling outwards from art, crisis, music, sickness, reinvention, mourning, renewal, collapse, and enchantment. Picking through the remnants and imagining what might emerge, as the grains of sand pile upwards, the hope drone swells, the gamelan chimes, and the distant bells peal.
Repatterning is available via RSS, and via Apple or Google, with occasional glimpses on social media.