Forecasts from the Future at STRANGE WEATHER

18.07.14–05.10.14
STRANGE WEATHER: FORECASTS FROM THE FUTURE
A free exhibition exploring how humans are attempting to understand, adapt to and control our changing weather.

FORECASTS FROM THE FUTURE - COCLIMATE (US & NO)
In this installation visitors enter a green screen TV-studio and choose one of many weather news scripts to read. Topics include Ireland’s 2050 weather forecast derived from today’s best climate models, the political fallout from unilateral implementation of geoengineering technologies, the economic and weather forecast from rapidly changing regions such as the Arctic, and a meteorological tongue twister that catalogues all of the vernacular sayings for describing rain in Ireland. CoClimate invited artists and scientists in STRANGE WEATHER to produce scripts about various future scenarios. Forecasts from the Future includes contributions from ICHEC, FICTILIS, Jodi Newcombe, Tega Brain, Owen Wells and Gerald Fleming.

ABOUT STRANGE WEATHER:
We are obsessed with the weather. It is a powerful, shared daily experience, offering us an immediate talking point with which to engage our fellow citizens. Yet when we talk about climate change the sense of guilt or powerlessness is enough to kill the conversation.

By engaging both weather and climate in a playful, provocative way, we hope to leapfrog over current polarised public debates. STRANGE WEATHER propels you to forecast your own fate on a changing planet with an uncertain future.

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