The Work of Wind: Land - edited Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin (K. Verlag, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga) Edition The pages that follow reproduce

The pages that follow reproduce almost the entire contents of the archives of the now-defunct Museum of Natural History

Their practice explores the overlapping boundaries between art

‘Like a sherpa

Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice their art in the shadows

ecology and geopolitics

The Work of Wind: Land - edited Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin (K. Verlag, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga) Edition The pages that follow reproduceThe 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,