John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog featured in New York Times with installation ‘Oceans in Translation’

AA tutors John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, who run Climate Peace (Diploma 4) have been featured in the New York Times with an installation undertaken in Venice by their practice Territorial Agency. The installation, called ‘Oceans in Translation’, uses data driven analysis to depict the changing state of the world’s oceans as the climate crisis disrupts their usual patterns.

‘The oceans are changing very fast, yet knowledge of them is moving slowly and is enveloped in long-established forms of cultural separation and distinction between human activities at land and at sea. This division needs to be rethought to address the urgent and vast transformations that the seas are undergoing.’

The thought provoking installation has taken on an even clearer relevance in recent months, as the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy has cleared the pollution from the canals of Venice, offering a tantalising glimpse of how the oceans might be treated differently in the future. The exhibition will open at Ocean Space in Venice on Thursday 27 August.

Read the New York Times interview.