Weather as Medium: Toward a social meteorology
Janine Randerson
1–2pm, Tuesday 20 June 2023
Please join curator of Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear Janine Randerson for The Ediths Responsive Roundtable 82, where she will share her current work around weather through ecological politics, art practices and her current curated exhibition. Through valuing and promoting Indigenous, social and gender-responsive approaches to meteorology and the climate calamity, this discussion will build on Randerson’s book, Weather as Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art, where she examines artworks that offer possible engagement with our future weathers, while creating openings for immediate action in the present.
Randerson will be joined by Dr Andrea Rassell (Filmmaker, Science Artist and Creative Research Fellow, Hub for Immersive Visualisation and eResearch (HIVE), Curtin University) and Dr Aaron Jenkins (Centre for People, Place, and Planet, Edith Cowan University).
Audience applicant numbers will be limited – please email info@tetuhi.art to RSVP.
Weather Now-ness
Julieanna Preston
1–2pm, Tuesday 27 June 2023
Please join Professor Julieanna Preston to share her current research with regard to weather. Through a series of recent durational site-situated live art, installations, videos and performance writing projects, including Word Weathers and she says, she says, this discussion considers the radical nature of now-ness as a temporal state of atmospheric contingency bound by location, observation and critical reflection.
Preston will be joined by Dr Cassandra Tytler (Forrest Creative Research Fellow, Hub for Immersive Visualisation and eResearch (HIVE), Curtin University) and Kylie Wrigely (Centre for People, Place, and Planet, Edith Cowan University). The event roundtable will be chaired by Professor Mindy Blaise and Dr Jo Pollitt (Centre for People, Place, and Planet, Edith Cowan University).
About Janine Randerson
Janine Randerson is an artmaker of video installations, 16mm films, sound and online artworks, and she often practices in collaboration with environmental scientists and community groups. Janine’s book Weather as Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art (MIT Press, 2018) focuses on modern and contemporary artworks that engage with our present and future weathers. Janine also facilitates art exhibitions, events and screening programmes. She is the curator of Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear, a year-long digital programme and physical exhibition hosted by Te Tuhi as a partnering agency of the international World Weather Network.
About Julieanna Preston
Julieanna Preston speculates on the vitality of materials through durational site-situated live art, installations, videos and performance writing. Recent works include breath-taking (2019, Denmark), RPM Hums (2018, NZ), Being Under Symphony (2019, USA), “You are embued with tolerance…” (2019, Architecture & Culture), “Road Care” (Jen Archer-Martin, 2020, Performance Care), “motor-mouthing” (2020, Voice and New Materialism), HARK (2021, Wellington).
About the Ediths Roundtable
The Ediths 2023 Responsive Roundtable Series brings art-science-education collaborations into focus to think with reading, response, and studio (as both place and theoretical space), as concepts for grappling with the complexities of weather relations through place-based literacies in times of ecological crisis. This series is part of Jo Pollitt’s Forrest Creative Fellowship project titled: Weather Studios, and is presented by the Centre for People, Place, and Planet’s Program of Research: Place-based literacies for ecosocial justice. Weather as a studio for feminist transdisciplinary research makes space for science-scholars, artist-scholars, and educational-scholars to work together at and within their disciplinary edges to activate weather learning for unstable times.