the weight of air is inspired by the work of performance theorist Em Piro:

“... a russet blanket can be seen gently hovering just above the rooftops. As light breaks, the blanket begins to rise, stretch, and lift into the blue, dissipating until it is little more than a faint haze. Twenty minutes, brief and graceful, the skyline releve has concluded….

SMOG BALLET AND OTHER WORKS documents the anthropogenic impact and the correspondent environmental response in specific sites around the world where environmental performances of climate change are exhibited through changes in weather and landscape, performed by the natural environment. Like human-made artworks, these nature-and-anthro-engineered opuses are affective and sensory.”

SMOG BALLET AND OTHER WORKS, as naturally occurring aesthetic experiences, are viewed by Ladenheim and Avery as subtle activism; thus, the weight of air mirrors this phenomena in sound, light, and through the body. The artists explore the potential that presence and affective, sensory experiences have to motivate protest and individual resilience.