• LAST YEAR'S ATLANTIC

    March 2021

  • Coeval Proposition #2: Last Year’s Atlantic, or You look really good, you look like you pretended like nothing ever happened, or a Weakening is a live rendering of ocean weather data collected from March 2020 to January 2021 centered on the vast North Atlantic “cold blob." Commissioned by SculptureCenter and premiered at Rindon Johnson's solo show Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies.

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On any given day over the course of the two exhibitions (running from March 2021 in New York to January 2022 in London), the work will generate second-for-second figurative visualizations of weather data gathered on the same day in the previous year. Folding in a climate system that hatches the conditions in which the exhibition takes place, the work creates a yearlong portrait of last year’s Atlantic, centered on the vast North Atlantic “cold blob,” located at the approximate geographical midpoint between SculptureCenter in New York and Chisenhale Gallery in London. The site is an anomalous rapidly-cooling section of the Gulf Stream’s warm ocean current. Believed to be brought on by global warming, the “cold blob” interferes with and continually weakens the system’s movement and its regulation of oceanic and land temperatures.

Credits
* Direction: Rindon Johnson
* Development: Pariah Interactive

Pariah Interactive Team
* Technical Direction: Prashast Thapan
* Development: Unnat Ramjiyani
* Visual Post-Processing: Stephanie Davila
* Production: Lillyan Ling

Press
* SculptureCenter: "Rindon Johnson: Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies"

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