Roadsides

Christian Rohr compares early leisure travelers’ culture of representation with today’s social media savvy visitors. “Did the performative social media trend of today, which I would like to label as Instagram society, actually start around 1900?”

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In her piece, Hasina shares a study of how high altitude music festivals continue ancestral forms of ritual relationships with the glaciers in Gilgit-Baltistan. Read this fascinating text and listen to one of the performances included in our website.

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Tal Shutkin examines a network of sociocryospheric relations that emerge linking the physical and cultural infrastructures of the Huaytapallana Regional Conservation Area, Peru. Read more on our Collection 15: Cryosphere.

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Drawing on a folktale concerning a cook and a king trapped on the Chadar, a river that freezes in the winter, Karine Gagné explores how local residents of the Himalayas confront the challenges of climate change. Read this and other pieces of our collection 15: Cryosphere.

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In her piece, Zahnfang Wang examines the role of ice houses before the advent of mechanical refrigeration. With a focus on local developments of ice houses in Ningbo, China, Wang examines them as practical solutions for faraway demands.

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Annika Bowman uses a landmark scientific report on glacial geoengineering published in 2024 as a point of departure for her piece of speculative fiction with a choose-your-own-adventure format. Here are some snippets, but for her whole proposal, check out the link in bio and click on Collection 15.

In their text, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva and Stewart Weaver explain how the mapping of a glacier in 1928 was an infrastructural act. It was an attempt to grasp a changing materiality of ice, with its melting, shifting and flowing. Want to know more? Read the full article!

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In this piece, Elizabeth Case, Andrew Hoffman, Hannah Mode and Tyler share some of their work aiming to dissolve boundaries between contemporary art practices and glacier science research through Glacial Hauntologies, their art-science collective. Through a shared ethos they exchange methodologies, conceptual knowledge and disciplinary practices through discussion, experimentation, tutorials, processing and making.

Is a glacier dead if it still provides enough meltwater for a spa? In this text, Nicole Schuab and Mark Carey discuss how inequalities are everywhere around ice. Read this text in our latest collection Cryosphere.

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Katie Ione Craney shares some of the art pieces and reflections from an exhibition she organized. Her contribution to our collection on the Cryosphere narrates the reflections and experiences these works of art spur on dis/comfort in the north.

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