Monsoon Assemblages is currently exhibiting work alongside Manifest Data Lab in an exhibition titled Planetary Assemblages at the Lethaby Gallery at Central St Martins in London. Both projects visualise geo-physical and atmospheric data as ways of making climate change perceptible. Manifest as drawings, maps, animations, videos and models, the work is saturated with data from […]
We are thrilled to announce that Volume 7 No. 1 of the Taylor and Francis Journal Geohumanities: Place, Space and the Humanities includes a special Monsoon Assemblages Forum. It comprises contributions from the Monsoon Assemblages researchers and others, all of which were developed from presentations first made at one of the symposia we hosted between […]
A Programme of Events by Monsoon AssemblagesMarch 04 – March 29, 2021 Bookings for all events here.Attendance is free but requires booking In March 2021, Monsoon Assemblages will host a programme of online events and an artists’ residency in London. The programme will coincide with the opening of the online exhibition Monsoonal Multiplicities, a platform […]
We are pleased to announce that two drawings by Monsoon Assemblages Research Associate, John Cook, have been accepted for the Royal Academy Summer/Winter Exhibition and will be on show from 9th October 2020 to 3rd January 2021. They are drawings of the summer and winter South Asian monsoons in 2016 and the instruments that recorded […]
MONASS is pleased to announce that the following publication arising from the grant research has just been released on line: Cullen, B. (2020). ‘Constellations of weathering: following the meteorological mobilities of Bangla bricks.’ Mobilities. Online Open Access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2020.1759929 This publication is open access and available to download from the link provided.
During the Easter break I travelled to Arizona to take part in a “Lifescale Prototyping and Participatory Steering of Complex Adaptive Systems” workshop. This opportunity emerged from an earlier CECAN workshop that took place in Surrey UK, organised by Alex Penn, which aimed to take initial steps towards building an international community interested in developing […]
The third MONASS symposium and exhibition, Monsoon [+other] Grounds took place at the University of Westminster on the 21 and 22 March, 2019. It following Monsoon [+other] Airs and Monsoon [+other] Waters, which had been held in 2017 and 2018. The symposium brought the monsoon down to earth so to speak, as a seasonal designer […]
We are pleased to announce the programme for Monsoon [+ other] Grounds, the third and final symposium that Monsoon Assemblages will convene before its final conference in 2021. Monsoon [+ other] Grounds will take place in M416, University of Westminster Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS on 21 and 22 March 2019. The programme […]
MONASS Research Fellow, Beth Cullen presented a paper titled ‘The fish, the delta and the monsoon: storying Hilsa ecologies’ at the Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices Conference that took place 23 – 25 January 2019, Linnæus University, Sweden, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Aesthetics and Ecology, Copenhagen/Berlin. Here is the abstract of her paper: What can a […]
Abstracts for papers and creative, practice based contributions are invited for Monsoon [+ Other] Grounds, the third symposium to be convened by Monsoon Assemblages, following Monsoon [+ Other] Airs in 2017 and Monsoon [+ Other] Waters in 2018. Deadline: 14 January 2019; Notification: 31 January 2019; Symposium Dates: 21-22 March 2019; Venue: University of Westminster, […]