ABSTRACT

This chapter follows the flight and fate of the Aerocene Gemini, two solar-powered aerostatic artworks constructed and launched by the Aerocene Community. As they soar through the stratosphere, the Gemini become imaginative companions for thinking about the micropolitics of creative practices. This chapter takes a narrative approach to convey the dramas and ruptures that emerge from novel collective subjectivation in environments and atmospheres. The Guattarian micropolitics of Aerocene practices and journeys is embodied in the solar-energetic relations Aerocene sculptures establish, and in the ecology of practices lured by the promise of these relations.