Led by Jussi Parikka (DARC) and Daphne Dragona, “Weather Engines” is a curatorial research project. It has resulted in an art exhibition and a program of talks, performances and workshops at the Onassis Stegi and the National Observatory of Athens (Thissio) in 2022 and with a 2nd edition at Laboral, in Gijon (Spain) in 2023. It explores weather as a complex system, as observation and control, and as a lived experience. The included art projects and events engage with climate change, past and contemporary strategies of engineering the weather, as well as different sociopolitical atmospheres related to breathing and living. Approaching the models and systems of art as techniques of knowledge, “Weather Engines” addresses the need for climate justice, and for embracing the surrounding more-than-human world(s). The project and exhibitions is accompanied by the publication “Words of Weather: A glossary” (2022) that maps terms for a political ecology of experience.
Daphne Dragona
Supported by Onassis Stegi (2022 edition) and Laboral (2023) with external sponsors.