Who is involved?

Fairclouds is produced in partnership with Aerocene Foundation, RadicalxChange, and Serpentine Arts Technologies (Future Art Ecosystems).

Aerocene is an era-in-the-making, a community, a non-profit foundation. As a movement for eco-social justice, adrift on air, floating free from fossil fuels, lithium or hydrogen, Aerocene moves us towards an ethical re-alliance with the Earth and its cosmic web(s) of life. Rooted in slower activism and weather-dependent interdependency, Aerocene stands as a platform for climate justice, an eco-social energy transition, human and more-than-human rights,and alternative modes of knowing and sensing. Our work connects beyond disciplines and borders, taking shape through application into art, technology, justice and education. Since 2007, Aerocene has grown in parallel with Museo Aero Solar, and was formally established as a foundation in 2015.

The Communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc, spanning Jujuy and Salta in northwest Argentina, are Indigenous peoples united in defense of their territory, water, and culture. Together, they share ancestral territories on thirty-eight locations around the salt flat and lagoon basin, spanning vast expanses of the Andean Puna territory. Facing extractivist threats from lithium and rare earths mining, they advocate for free, prior, and informed consent, territorial rights, and environmental justice. They sustain ancestral ways of life rooted in “Buen Vivir”, a worldview that emphasizes living in harmony with nature, community well-being, and balance over individual accumulation.

RadicalxChange is a global movement for next-generation political economies. It is committed to advancing plurality, equality, community, and decentralisation through upgrading democracy, markets, the data economy, commons, and identity. RxC connects people from all walks of life – ranging from social scientists and technologists to artists and activists.

Serpentine Arts Technologies operates as an integrated programme for artistic and organisational experimentation. The programme supports artists in developing ambitious artworks that deploy advanced technologies as a medium, tool or topic, often operating beyond gallery walls. As the initiator of Future Art Ecosystems, Serpentine Arts Technologies co-commissions and co-produces innovative projects which develop and share knowledge, capabilities and resources.

Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN) is an Argentinian non-governmental and non-partisan organisation, founded in 1985. It responds to a demand to satisfy needs linked to the protection of the environment, which require appropriate responses from the field of law. They provide free legal advice to low-income people affected by environmental problems, who see their rights to access Justice and other legal or administrative remedies especially violated to provide for the defense of the right to a healthy environment.

Production Team

A project with: the Communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc, Serpentine Arts Technologies, RadicalxChange, Tomás Saraceno and Studio, the Aerocene Foundation

Artistic Direction: Tomás Saraceno and Studio with the Aerocene Foundation

Project Leads: Victoria Ivanova (R&D Strategic Lead, Serpentine Arts Technologies), Matt Prewitt (President, RadicalxChange), Ollie George (Studio Tomás Saraceno)

Production: Tommie Introna (R&D Producer, Serpentine Arts Technologies), Ollie George (Studio Tomás Saraceno), Matt Prewitt (RadicalxChange) 

Partial Common Ownership System R&D: Paula Berman, Cody Hadfield, Jack Henderson, Will Holley, Tommie Introna, Victoria Ivanova, Graven Prest, Matt Prewitt, Alice Scope, Lucy Sollitt, Rival Strategy, Ruth Waters, Kay Watson, Aerocene Foundation

Web development: Jack Murray-Brown, Alex Randaccio

Graphic design: Roxy Zeiher 

Animations: Gabriella Marsh  

Spanish Translation: Joaquín Ezcurra

Production assistance (Studio Tomás Saraceno): Victoria Bosch, Thomas Charil, Angela Navajas McCormick, Cara Russell

Acknowledgements

Fairclouds aims to foster a growing community across multiple continents supporting and amplifying the voices of the territories. The seeds of this project have grown from an ongoing dialogue with the communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc, first established in 2017. We would like to acknowledge these communities’ core contributions to the project as well as the time, energy, and fearless resistance they continue to exhibit, defending the water, salt flats and the commons for a fair ecosocial energy transition!

As well the mountains, air, plants, spiders, cosmic webs, birds, earth, waters, seeds, spores, fungi and roots of the Salinas have contributed considerably to the artistic conceptualization and core rationale of Fairclouds.

In particular thank you to Verónica Chávez, Nestor Alberto, Eloy Quispe, Natividad Vilte, Rubén Chino Galián, Leandro F. Galián, Wara M. Galián, Abigail Galián, Clemente Flores, Andrés René Castillo y Familia, Saraí Arjona, Rafael Arjona, Virginia Vilte, Aurora Nélida Liquin, Olga B. Liquin, Ana María Chuichuy, Yamile Victoria Chuichuy, Luciana Fernanda Chuichuy, Elifonso Córdoba, Lilia Alancay, Eulalio Loreto Barconte, Jorge 'Laucha' Fernandez, Ricardo Alankay, Diego Domínguez, Feliciano Flores, Mercedes Vilte, David Barrionuevo and family, Analía Vilte, Leopoldo Cañari, Natividad Calpanchay, Santiago Lamas, Anastasia Castillo, Red Puna y Quebrada, Oscar Alancay, Nicolas Alancay, Ronaldo Castillo, Daniel Castillo, Diego Liquin, Rita Tinte, Amante Sixto and all the community members of the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin.  

For their participation in early drawing workshops on cloud imaginations we would like to thank Armando Morales, Próspero Sarapura, Iber Sarapura, Elina Alejo, Laureana Alejo, César Alejo, Omar Quipildor, Orlando Quipildor, Lucas Quipildor, Guillermo Quipildor, Horacio Quipildor, Jorgelina Quipildor, Gastón Sarapura, Marcos Barconte, Luis Quipildor, Gabriel Morales, Lautaro Quipilador, Erika Gutiérrez, Tiago Barrancas, Melani Kimey, Inocensia Alejo, Sofía Tolaba, Luz Elena Guarí, Cristiano, Catriel Morales, and Angela Llampa. Furthermore, for helping to shape the possibilities to imagine other latencies during these workshop, thank you to Graciela Speranza and Inés Katzenstein.

For enabling many of the alliances that give strength to this movement we would like to pay special thanks to Maristella Svampa. As well for their knowledge and support: Claudia Aboaf, Melisa Argento, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, María Laura Castillo Díaz, Alicia Chalabe, Bruno Fornillo, Inés Katzenstein, Pía Marchegiani, Graciela Speranza, Alejo di Risio, Mai Lumi Azcona, Laura Lumi Azcona, Manuela Mazure Azcona, March Mazzei, Gastón Chillier, Enrique Viale, Joaquín Ezcurra, Maximiliano Laina, DaeHyung Lee and BTS, Antonia Alampi, Alicia Andersen, Alicia Cirilo, Alberto Pesavento, Till Hergenhahn, Leticia Marqués, Verónica Fiorito, Sasha Engelman, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Emma Enderby, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Yasmil Raymond, Bronisław Szerszyński, Pablo Suárez, Nick Shapiro, Carlos Almeida, Bill McKenna, Ludovica Illari, Daniel Birnbaum, Molly Nesbit, Sven Steudte, Barbara Bulc, Violeta Bulc, Josep María Llaidó. 

As well to a number of organizations whose mutual support of ecosocial actions helps us all to more clearly think together a more fair future: Action Collective for Ecosocial Justice, the Mirá Socio-environmental Collective, the Geopolitics and Commons Study Group, the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation, the Argentine Association of Environmental Lawyers, and the Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South.

A heartfelt thanks also goes to the international communities of Aerocene and Museo Aero Solar.