Oceans Rising: A Companion to 'Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation'
<p>ed. by Daniela Zyman ; with contr. by Nabil Ahmed, Matti Aikio, Jamie Allen …[et al]. - London : Sternberg, 2021. - 272 p. : ill. ; 29,5 cm</p>
ISBN: 978-3-95679-609-8
The oceans are rising. On the rise are the metrics of accelerated human activities: sea level, water temperature, acidity, algal blooms, and the depletion of fish communities and marine life. The loss of abundance and diversity has devastating effects on the services the oceans render to the earth, exhausting their unrecognized labor of carbon sequestration, climate resilience, and nutritional offerings. Thinking along a land-sea continuum, how can we fathom the political, aesthetic, and epistemological rise of the oceans from centuries of invisibilization and forgetting? Oceans Rising was the companion reader to the research exhibition Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation commissioned by TBA21–Academy, an independent oceanic art-science initiative operating out of Ocean Space in Venice. This publication gathers thoughtful and generous contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response to the rapidly changing oceans.
