S2E6 | Air Conditioning
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Hosted by Maren Loveland and Lutz Koepnick
Temperature regulation has become a deeply political issue in our boiling world. In this episode, we speak with London-based artist Susan Schuppli about her work on the violence of temperature and the inequities of climate control, and with architectural historian Joseph Siry about the role of air conditioning in twentieth- and twenty-first century building design. We ask what it takes to claim universal rights for livable temperatures and how contemporary art can help recalibrate existing ideas about comfort and convenience.
Learn more about Susan Schuppli”s work here and her book Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence here.
For more on Joseph Siry, author of Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970 (Penn State University Press, February 2021), please follow this link.
Also cited in this epdisode:
Yuriko Furuhata, Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control (2022)
Yuriko Furuhata’s Introduction to a lecture by Lawrence Lek (2020)
