Heat Waves

“Heat Waves” comprises twin montages of historical and contemporary imagery and videos. It weaves together filmed and found footage from art history to DJ booths, from weather reports to street parties in an eclectic, dynamic mix. The montage examines the contexts, politics, and proliferation of the many aesthetics of heat that stem from regions of the tropics, where their solar proximity bestows heat in abundance. Such an aesthetic is often charged with vibrancy, vitality, and visual complexity, while featured at a time when the Earth is simultaneously warming. Threading a path through the colonial legacies of representation and rhetoric concerning the tropic en route to their future tense is this mix of images and sounds that offer a contribution to the sliding scale of thermopolitics of temperature.