Atmospheric Feedback Loops
Susan Schuppli
September 3 鈥� October 31, 2025
The Cabinet | Room 4390 鈥� 51社区黑料School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Reception: September 3, 5:30 PM | Refreshments will be served
Artist talk: September 3, 4:30 PM (more HERE)
Hours: Monday 鈥� Friday, 8:00 AM 鈥� 8:00 PM, Saturday, 12:00 PM 鈥� 5:00 PM
Atmospheric Feedback Loops (2017, film, 17 min.) explores an open-air laboratory, a tall tower in the midst of flat rural fields south of Amsterdam. The tower records the atmospheric frequencies of nature to measure and monitor the changes taking place in the feedback loops between land, sea and air. Since 1970 the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmospheric Research (CESAR) has been studying the ways in which the complex behaviour of clouds, aerosols, radiation, and precipitation interact with major land reclamation projects, global warming, and other terrestrial events. According to the evidence collected at the site, the unique atmospheric properties of light in the Netherlands, its refractive shimmer鈥攆amously captured in the 17th century Dutch landscape paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael, among others鈥攈as been lost due to the diminished number of water molecules carried inland by prevailing winds.
Susan Schuppli will give a talk at the SCA, 鈥淐old Rights in a Burning World,鈥� on her current research on the cryosphere and the politics of cold. Sept. 3 in Room 4390, 4:30 鈥� 5:30 pm. More HERE. All welcome.
BIOGRAPHY
Susan Schuppli is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Forensic Architecture Fellow and Advisory Board Chair. She's also an SCA alumnus. Her artistic work has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally. Schuppli鈥檚 monograph was published by MIT Press in 2020.