The Forecast

From forecasting to prophesy, from speech acts to legal documents, the artists in the exhibition are attentive to the production and destruction of climates such as these. Prophets shout predictions from the sky, moved by a Cassandra-like rapture, whilst ancient forms for reading the world through word and image are reanimated. Language becomes a character who can speak for itself about its current predicaments, hopes and fears, whilst lost textual forms or fonts might be resuscitated and have life breathed into them by bodies who carry them through the city. New names for seasons and weather conditions might be established for digital spaces in which there is currently no weather, whilst event reports might arrive for an event that is yet to take place. The Forecast, is, in addition, a consideration of animation in general, and of our changing relationships to life and liveness in the current moment. As such the works in the exhibition are also concerned with the pure abberrance that is both life and weather, and so includes a number of live elements such as sound, performances, light changes and readings, to draw attention to the shared climate created by the artists in the exhibition, who share space with one another, and to agree to be animated by one other.