The Work of Wind: Land - edited Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin (K. Verlag, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga) gallery Cecilia Valenti

Cecilia Valenti

„Ich hatte den Ehrgeiz

In Revolutionary Berlin

and film theory

The Work of Wind: Land - edited Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin (K. Verlag, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga) gallery Cecilia ValentiThe Work of Wind: Land takes as its conceptual starting point the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force for "Use of Land"the index of thirteen levels measuring the effects of wind force published in 1807 by British sea admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. Through its systematic organisation of observation, the scale measures the wind speed by observing how it decomposes on land (e. g. leaves are blown from trees, chimney pots lifted, houses are destroyed) and,