Weathering Together was a workshop connecting the sensory experience with disrupted weather patterns.

The weather is always more-than-meteorological; weather can connect us through a shared experience; weather can move us, figuratively and literally. The weather is an affective, sensory, felt experience, an atmosphere structured by systems of power, and a durational force that implicates all bodies, differently, in the changing climate. As these changes become more apparent, many of us are faced with similar questions provoked by these meteorological motions. Weathering Together was a more-than-meteorological workshop, presented by Astrida Neimanis, that connected the sensory experience with disrupted weather patterns. The workshop drew on a decade of practice-led experiments initiated within the Weathering Collective to consider how attention to these weathers can guide us in a meaningful redistribution of shelter and vulnerability in stormy times. Participants conducted various experiments to feel, record and forecast the weather, after which they collectively generated a zine-style short-form publication or ‘Weathering Report’.

Astrida Neimanis (AU/CA) is a cultural theorist working at the intersection of feminism and environmental change. Her research focuses on bodies, water, and weather, and how they can help us reimagine justice, care, responsibility and relation in the time of climate catastrophe.

Part of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action. Co-funded by the European Union.

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Photo: Bora Sekerci.