Just so you can’t say I didn’t mention the clouds 119 The video installation “Cloud Studies” (2021), from the Forensic Architecture interdisciplinary research group, illustrates the use of audiovisual material and data collected by NGOs and activists to reconstruct events and explosions through electronic simulations, image and video analysis, geospatial systems, and other technologies developed by the group itself. The installation’s purpose is to create legal evidence of environmental crimes in collaboration with activists, NGOs, and social movements. Through an installation divided into chapters, each identifiedwith different chemical elements that comprise various types of clouds, ranging from clouds of carbon dioxide from the wildfires in Indonesia, smoke caused by white phosphorus bomb explosions in Palestine, and the atmospheric contamination from pesticides in the southern United States. The work highlights how clouds, in their vari- ous forms, including the media cloud, have enormous environ- mental and humanitarian impacts. As the group asserts, “clouds are always double – they are environmental and political. Toxic haze is easily surrounded by lethal doubts. When ‘post-truth’ and denialism obscure acts of violence and aggravate harm, we, the inhabitants of toxic clouds, must find new forms of resistance”. Example 2: Contemporary Indigenous Art, Denilson Baniwa Figure 9 – Denilson Baniwa, Contacts of the Third Kind, 2021, digital collage. Source: Prêmio PIPA, https://www.pipaprize.com/denilson-baniwa/.
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