The Sea is an antithesis to Earth: to its terrain’s relief, the Sea shows horizontality; to outward appearance, depth; to itemisation and heterogeneity, continuity; to finitude, infinity. […] To reach this goal, [humanity] tries to endow Earth with the Sea’s innate qualities: continuity, horizontality, vastness and depth. It is for its inborn quality that humans embrace the Sea as their largest global infrastructure. On its waves, humankind places everything they produce on Earth. Earth produces, Sea distributes—like the conveyor belt in a sushi restaurant.” With the Mediterranean Sea as their starting point, research collective Avalanche (TVK, Anyoji Beltrando and KH studio) reflects on the Sea and Earth as infrastructure. The Mediterranean as the birthplace of the Babylonian myth has been swallowed in a liquid infrastructure of global trading that turns the back to its hinterland and resettles in the open sea.
Liquid Earth
A. delli Ponti
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2016
Abstract
The Sea is an antithesis to Earth: to its terrain’s relief, the Sea shows horizontality; to outward appearance, depth; to itemisation and heterogeneity, continuity; to finitude, infinity. […] To reach this goal, [humanity] tries to endow Earth with the Sea’s innate qualities: continuity, horizontality, vastness and depth. It is for its inborn quality that humans embrace the Sea as their largest global infrastructure. On its waves, humankind places everything they produce on Earth. Earth produces, Sea distributes—like the conveyor belt in a sushi restaurant.” With the Mediterranean Sea as their starting point, research collective Avalanche (TVK, Anyoji Beltrando and KH studio) reflects on the Sea and Earth as infrastructure. The Mediterranean as the birthplace of the Babylonian myth has been swallowed in a liquid infrastructure of global trading that turns the back to its hinterland and resettles in the open sea.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
