ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the elemental lures of transboundary air movements and regulated airspace. To do so, I follow the nomadic journey of the Aerocene Gemini over one day in summer 2016. In the Aerocene project, the mutual condition of ‘not-knowing’ where a floating sculpture is moving, how long it will fly or where it will land produces particular sensibilities of the meteorological atmosphere that inform affective atmospheres on the ground. It also opens up space for dialogue and debate, the questioning of information and the use of amateur technologies to read the ‘invisible maps’ of the air. It is precisely because the sculpture ceases to be a definable object or entity and dissolves into atmospheric currents that these lures of movement are so potently felt within the Aerocene Community and beyond it. Still, we would be amiss to focus only on traces and lures of, and in, the atmosphere; we also need to understand the traces of these nomadic flights as they are registered in human bodies and inform the politics of the Aerocene Community.
