Allora & Calzadilla’s watercolor series takes inspiration from the wind, a force connecting distant people and places from the earliest days of human civilization. Using contemporary wind forecasting technologies as a point of departure, the images depict wind direction and speed as it moves across a particular region in the world. However, the textual and numerical information that normally appears in such forecasts is replaced with world events in maritime history. As a result, a new map emerges, one in which the wind movement and speed of the present overlaps with past events.

Agulhas current, 1661, Indian Ocean A: current system in the Indian Ocean that could exacerbate or mitigate warming and extreme weather events in the future.

Mount Potalaka, sixth century C.E. India A: place where utopias, are presumed to be actualized. Potaka was deployed within actual landscapes and served the purpose of establishing continuities between utopian space and this very world: the distance between the two, it was believed, could be overcome by physical travel.

Allora & Calzadilla’s watercolor series takes inspiration from the wind, a force connecting distant people and places from the earliest days of human civilization. Using contemporary wind forecasting technologies as a point of departure, the images depict wind direction and speed as it moves across a particular region in the world. However, the textual and numerical information that normally appears in such forecasts is replaced with world events in maritime history. As a result, a new map emerges, one in which the wind movement and speed of the present overlaps with past events.

Agulhas current, 1661, Indian Ocean A: current system in the Indian Ocean that could exacerbate or mitigate warming and extreme weather events in the future.

Mount Potalaka, sixth century C.E. India A: place where utopias, are presumed to be actualized. Potaka was deployed within actual landscapes and served the purpose of establishing continuities between utopian space and this very world: the distance between the two, it was believed, could be overcome by physical travel.

Allora & Calzadilla’s watercolor series takes inspiration from the wind, a force connecting distant people and places from the earliest days of human civilization. Using contemporary wind forecasting technologies as a point of departure, the images depict wind direction and speed as it moves across a particular region in the world. However, the textual and numerical information that normally appears in such forecasts is replaced with world events in maritime history. As a result, a new map emerges, one in which the wind movement and speed of the present overlaps with past events.

Agulhas current, 1661, Indian Ocean A: current system in the Indian Ocean that could exacerbate or mitigate warming and extreme weather events in the future.

Mount Potalaka, sixth century C.E. India A: place where utopias, are presumed to be actualized. Potaka was deployed within actual landscapes and served the purpose of establishing continuities between utopian space and this very world: the distance between the two, it was believed, could be overcome by physical travel.