The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response

Exhibition:
The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response
curated by Jacqueline Bosscher, Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark

http://www.scanz.net.nz/weathertalk/?page_id=177

UTS Gallery - Ultimo NSW 2007 - 3 July

Participating artists: (selection from ASIA PACIFIC)
Peter Bennetts (Aus), Elizabeth Day (Aus), David Haines (Aus) & Joyce Hinterding (Aus), Jonathan Jones (Aus), Zina Kaye (Aus), Dani Marti (Aus), Maria Miranda (Aus) & Norie Neumark (Aus), Jason Nelson (Aus), John Tonkin (Aus) and H J Wedge (Aus)
Niki Hastings-McFall (NZ, Samoa), ) & Jim Vivieaere (NZ/Cook Islands), Janine Randerson (NZ), Te Vaka (Tuvalu, Tokelau, Samoa),

Further Information: Anneke Jaspers, Assistant Curator: (02) 9514 1652 | utsgallery@uts.edu.au

http://www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au/gallery/index.html

http://www.weathertrouble.net

“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past

Changing weather has spelt trouble before. But now we don’t quite know what to make of it, and it feels urgent. As the media, climatologists, environmentalists and politicians vie to shape our understanding and emotional responses, global warming reverberates through every level of culture. The uneasy relationship between technology, nature and culture is unsettled once more. The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response brings together artists from Australia, the South Pacific and South America. The installation, video, sound, sculptural, web-based and performative works respond to the unsettling effects of climate change. With their focus ranging from an emphasis on aesthetic imaginings, to investigations of tactical, emotional and pataphysical responses, the works in this
exhibition open out a space for dialogue on our complex socio-cultural relationships to weather in the current context.