Word Weathers [collaborative online experimental writing performance], Mick Douglas, Andy Lock, Julieanna Preston, Janine Randerson and Layne Waerea, ( 21 June 2022, 7:30 am - 22 June 2022, 12:03 am). World Weather Network Project by Artangel, as part of the weather station hosted by Te Tuhi (Tāmaki, Aotearoa).
Word Weathers is an interactive durational writing performance that considers the radical nature of now-ness as a temporal state of atmospheric contingency bound by location, observation and critical reflection on the state of a biosphere in crisis. Over the course of a full rotation of the earth (24 hours) on the winter/summer solstice (21 June 2022), we will write, read, image, sound, respond, edit, augment, and supplement a single continuous text and mark-making performance visible to all event participants. This online (zoom-specific) performance writing exchange will include others situated around the globe to participate as honoured guests to watch and record their weather on the special cosmic occasion of Matariki, the Māori new year. Our collective efforts will be to become weather: to mark the rising of the Matariki star cluster and the emergence of an extended dawn with a global community.
Here is a link to the 5 minute trailer composed by Oscar Barber Wilson of the 17-hour event: https://vimeo.com/827556342?share=copy
