DATE & LOCATION OF OBSERVATIONS
21-23 Feb, 2016, Ingar Dam, Blue Mountains. “The quality of the water can be measured by the life forms present.”
ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS
*conducive to swimming and fire-in-the-evening.
- Tessa Zettel – totally present
- Kate Wright – around 4 months pregnant and looking for a comfy bed
- Stephanie Springgay – incubating amoeba
- Sarah Truman – ditto
- Astrida Neimanis – slept well
- Jennifer Hamilton – grumpy and happy
- Rebecca Giggs – (Bush Google)
FORECAST
By spending 3 days and 2 nights in closer contact with the weather, might we develop methods for reading and responding to weather differently?
Loosely structured: Conversation, collaboration, conviviality (eating, swimming, walking, fire, talking, contemplation, movement, writing)
LATEST WEATHERING ACTIVITY
Feb 21
- 10 am: depart Sydney
- 2 pm: arrive Ingar Dam; set up camp; eat lunch (vegan sushi and sandwiches + nutritional yeast)
- late afternoon: scouting sites, personal settling in, napping
- Evening: collective trip to the High Ground to plan for the next day and a half. Swimming, fire, food (chickpea tagine)
Feb 22
- Sunrise: qi gong, haiku, bodyweathering at the High Ground
- A.M.: breakfast (pancakes & veggie sausage), JMH, TZ, AN – hike to the creek
- Lunch: quiches and salads
- PM: writing exercises: disciplined extrospection and weather ecologies; group discussion under the trees [TZ: moss + lichen; AN: ecotone of the dam (tadpole weather); SS/ST: rocks; KW: ants; BG: burrowing; JMH: picnic table]
- Evening: dinner (burritos) + swimming + fire (with portwine)
Feb 23:
- Sunrise – swimming or not
- Morning: breakfast (quinoa porridge); packdown; future planning (see “Warnings”); departure.
OBSERVATIONS
- supervisor/supervisee relationship
- red wine is now too warm in Europe
- hairy ball theorem is the maximum amount of hurricanes that the world can handle
- ‘through wind’ – old latvian women complaining and precipitating the need for a sweater, always
- Open the door so the wind can blow the soul out of the house (Jewish)
- elixir field and pa fung (fear of wind)
- how all kinds of species form an ecology of weather (eg. ants as markers/indicators)
- tropopause (Bush Google)
- gravity as an ecological force
- what is that smell before rain (acutally)? (Petrichor? KW?)
- some people make dangerous fires
- there is something interesting about Captain Frederick Maury (1887?)
- caterpillars liquify before becoming butterflies
See here for results of some of our experimentation.
SATELLITE IMAGES
WARNINGS CURRENT
Thinking about going bigger and deeper.
We will meet again in March for Weathering #3 in Sydney.
Other prospects:
- Ganguddy in the winter
- Banff residency in 2017
- epistolary projects
- Presentations in late 2016 (ASLEC-ANZ Global Ecologies; Summer Institute of the Antipodes; Somatechnics)
- chapbook
- methods article
Question: How do you 3D print the weather?
WEATHER MAPS
wind maps by Tessa – Sat 5:30pm (ish), 10 mins, top of hill / Mon lunchtime, 7 mins, campground
LIVE READINGS
- Karen Barad – Transmaterialities
- Alphonso Lingis: “weather is neither substance nor subject” (Dangerous Emotions)
- Jeffrey Cohen – Stone
- Lawrence Bunuel on disciplined extrospection
- Eve Sedgwick – Nationalisms and Sexualities