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Collective founded in 2007. Based in Australia.

theweathergroup_U is a collective interested in pursuing experimental methods of audio-visual media production, environmental mapping and monitoring technologies, and processes of community-based interaction and knowledge exchange. As artists and media workers, they are primarily concerned with cross-cultural digital storytelling methods. Using the interlocking themes of weather, ecology, climate, geography, communications and collaboration, they seek to explore different ways of seeing, listening and documenting the interactions with natural systems that punctuate our daily existence. theweathergroup_U seeks to examine how people from differing social and cultural backgrounds can connect with and further understand the environmental and ecological systems that surround them. Members of the group come from a range of professional and experiential backgrounds. They include Susan Norrie, David Mackenzie, Bryce Anbinis-King, Sumugan Sivanesan, Dr Jeremy Walker, Will Tinapple and Danielle Green.

 

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Cockatoo Island, 2008 Biennale of Sydney

The weathergroup formed for this and future projects to further develop themes arising in previous works by Susan Norrie and David Mackenzie (Twilight 2005, Havoc, 2007) on the way diverse human cultures understand and respond to changes in their natural environment. The central idea that brought us together is the weather: as something we communicate about everyday, as an object of traditional and scientific knowledge practices, as our sensual experience of the natural sublime. Weather was something which was once seen as regular and beyond our control, a point hammered home by rare Acts of God. Now, because of our burning technology, the weather is becoming chaotic. This requires us to monitor and cooperatively control our effects upon it. Linked to this interest were images of lightning, of the Promethean forces of nuclear industry re-awakened by climate change, and a concern that, even in the context of ‘Sorry Day’, a lot of Aborigines see the continuing NT Emergency Intervention as a dissolution of hard won and limited indigenous sovereignty. [... More, Download pdf]

 

More Info: www.theweathergroup.org/