The Weathering Report #3

DATE & LOCATION OF OBSERVATIONS
Thursday 17 March, 2016.
John Woolley Building, University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS
Dry, stuffy. Dusty. Hot. Sweaty bodies. Sunlight from the window.

FORECAST
Small to medium chance of weathering report books in next 12 months. See Warnings Current.

Of increasing interest in the coming phase: temporalities of weather (predictive time / pre-emptive times) and instrumentalities of weather.

LATEST WEATHERING ACTIVITY
Bec’s tweets during the meeting, which lasted a few hours:

• rebeccagiggs OH at #Weathering2: “Most things that dig, dig with their heads.”17 Mar from Twitter for iPhone
  

  rebeccagiggs OH at #Weathering2: “My body exists in the time between a lightning strike and the Anthropocene”.17 Mar from Twitter for iPhone
  

  rebeccagiggs OH at #Weathering2: “What I am thinking of is a vignetted bulletin on various standard thermometers and barometers.”17 Mar from Twitter for iPhone
• 
  rebeccagiggs OH at #Weathering2: “I am deeply interested in resisting a mountain too!”17 Mar from Twitter for iPhone
• 
  rebeccagiggs OH at #Weathering2: “I think we should go to Rocky Mountains back country for a month and write a very tiny pamphlet resisting all of it”.17 Mar from Twitter for iPhone
• 
  rebeccagiggs OH #Weathering2: “How do you destabilise the genre of the manifesto tho? Isn’t, like, the raison d’être of the whole genre destabilisation?”17 Mar from Twitter for iPhone
• 
  rebeccagiggs OH at #Weathering2: “Let’s use that funding to go to Cape Grim and look at bottled air, I think we could.”17 Mar from Twitter for iPhone
• 
  rebeccagiggs OH at #Weathering2 “Ok, but Jen: how are we going to print out the moon?”

SATELLITE IMAGES

WARNINGS CURRENT
Milky mammalian weather brewing in Armidale Weather-Body. Bad skype connection.

Otherwise,

• Mid-term evacuation procedures for Weathering #4 under review:
  – Walter de Maria Lightning Field (US)
  – Fowler’s Gap, NSW (UNSW art research station)
  – Rocky Mountains back country
  – camping somewhere in AUS with John Wolseley
• Conference presentations, late 2016 highly probable (ASLEC-ANZ Global Ecologies / Somatechnics, Byron Bay). Panel proposal or co-authored papers.
• Hosting a walk/talk with Frances Bodkin of Mt Annan Botanic Garden, in Sept/Oct. Deep time climatology.
• Series of occasional print publications – a kind of slow weather bulletin – that each document one exercise. Eg. An attempt to print the moon ?!

WEATHER MAPS
not available

LIVE READINGS
Ernie Dillard – Total Eclipse