Climate Engines
An exhibition on art, architecture and meteorology included in the Cultural Program of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Picos de Europa. Photo: Marcos Morilla
Weather and climate affect how we live and how we imagine the future of the planet. Meteorology is the official language for naming the dynamics of pressure, temperature and humidity, but, beyond scientific language, we also constantly experience, imagine and create weather and climate. Weather can be described as variable: extreme temperatures hit some regions harder than others and the atmosphere becomes unbearable. Climate varies across the world - literally and metaphorically - with some areas and populations experiencing unbearable conditions for long periods of time. Talking about weather and climate today means recognising that extreme conditions leave some exposed and others protected, some worn out and others profiting from weather forecasts.
Climate Engines proposes art as a technique of knowledge to explore weather and climate as complex systems, as objects of observation and control, and as forms of lived experience. The artworks, talks and workshops refer to natural phenomena and climate change, to past and contemporary geoengineering strategies, as well as to different atmospheres related to breathing and life. The exhibition addresses the need for climate justice while inviting us to embrace the surrounding more-than-human world(s).
Curated by: Daphne Dragona & Jussi Parikka
The selection of Spanish artists, the adaptation of Engines of Climate to the Asturian context, and the research workshop have been curated by Pablo de Soto in collaboration with Patricia Villanueva.
Artists:
Kat Austen, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Felipe Castelblanco, Kent Chan, Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman, DESIGN EARTH, Matthias Fritsch, Geocinema (Asia Bazdyrieva & Solveig Qu Suess), Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Hypercomf, Lito Kattou, Zissis Kotionis, Pablo de Lillo, Atmospheric Research Collective (Tom Corby, Gavin Baily, Jonathan Mackenzie, Louise Sime, Giles Lane, Erin Dickson, George Roussos), Matterlurgy (Helena Hunter & Mark Peter Wright), Barbara Marcel, Víctor Mazón, Petros Moris, Sybille Neumeyer, Afroditi Psarra & Audrey Briot, Rotor Studio (Ángeles Angulo y Román Torre), Susan Schuppli, Rachel Shearer & Cathy Livermore, Stefania Strouza, Superflux, Paky Vlassopoulou, Thomas Wrede.
The exhibition is accompanied by the Research Workshop: Asturias, from Natural Paradise to Climatic Refuge and the publication "Words of Weather: A Glossary" which maps terms for a political ecology of experience, now published for the first time in Spanish.
Acknowledgements: Christos Carras, Luis Feas, Aarhus University (project Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data), AHRC and University of Southampton.
Weather Engines" is realised with the support of the Cultural Export Programme "Outwards-Turn" of ONASSIS STEGI.
"Weather Engines" is an exhibition developed, organised and presented for the first time at ONASSIS STEGI in Athens (01.04 - 15.05.2022), and realised in the framework of the Studiotopia network, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
