“Barometer” and “Aerographs”

The project “Barometer” and “Aerographs” proposes temporary, reversible structures for measuring weather phenomena according to a site-specific interpretation of the area. The metric machines installed measure time with non-measurable measurement indicators. This contradiction seeks to highlight the limits of the measurability of time/weather (‘kairos’) and its reduction to quantitative data.

The “Aerographs” consist of reeds hanging from the branches of a plum-tree and resting slightly in pots of sand on the grass. As the branches move with the wind, the tips of the reeds softly carve the sand. The “Aerographs” operate as wind-meters that record the traces of the sensory uptake of weather by the body. At the top of the hill next to the Museum and in a position with a direct view to the Acropolis, the “Barometer” is installed on an existing marble pedestal from where the Parthenon is visually targeted. The work provides a platform for the observation of the verticality of the temple and its rhythm that resists weather conditions and measures time. The project is a statement against the neurotic treatment of meteorological data by the media. The more the data increases, the more the weather remains unknown and inanimate.