...Aaron Tucker The interlocking crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires exacerbated by climate catastrophe, and systemic racism in law enforcement have led to the biopolitical management of breathable air alongside the exponential rise in the production of masked faces. However, the introduction...

... extractive limestone mining in rural northern Vietnam, a process that smothers the land in a kind of white, powdery haze and slow death grip. Both works highlight a question of inequitable breathability in relation to the airscape. In comparing these two artworks, this essay aims to parse out intertwined...