Topologies of Air - multi screen video and multi-channel sound installation

Duration 45 minutes, three screen video and multi-channel video installation.

Topologies of Air examines how the military and corporate colonisation of airspace and outer space intersects with the existential threats of climate change. Filmed in different parts of the world, and including multiple voices from the Airspace Tribunal, an international people’s tribunal established by Illingworth with human rights lawyer Nick Grief in 2018, recorded discussions, and archive film, the project examines the impacts of accelerating military, industrial and corporate exploitation of airspace and outer space, environmental degradation, and the implications for human rights. Investigating how humans have radically transformed the sky from a space of cultural meaning, utopian visions and wonder into a source of increasing existential planetary threat, Topologies of Air maps an ever-more complex, weaponised, and instrumentalised space of surveillance, territorialisation and multi-domain war.