PFSL01 brings together work from an international group of artists offering atypical planetary visualizations. They are the first in what will be a series of positioned ‘views,’ which will form a collective archive of the contemporary condition. Together, these views couple together aesthetic investigations of ecological, social, and industrial flows with a renewed belief in art as a tool for situating belongingness within systems. The collective archive emerges as an inductive study of the material present. Artist-collaborators are ports, and their exchanges serve as logistics to operationalize this collective present through cultural connection; greater than mere commodity chain.

Artist-collaborators working across field recordings and found footage offer interpretations to our call: what might the planetary look like from the ground-up? Their visualizations move beyond implied, ever-distant lines of connectivity towards a depth of field typically left out of global discussions. In choosing to belong to this latent archive, artist-collaborators trace edge conditions and connections across territorial divides. When viewed as a constellation, imaginations of the sky and the sea as vast spaces for politics join a fragmented almanac of the earth, in opposition to known tropes or scales.