MOTORES DEL CLIMA

06.10.2023 – 18.05.2024, MOTORES DEL CLIMA: Poetics, politics and technologies of the environment. Collective exhibition curated by Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parikka at LABoral - Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijon, Spain. Artists: Kat Austen, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Felipe Castelblanco, Kent Chan, Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman, DESIGN EARTH, Matthias Fritsch, Geocinema (Asia Bazdyrieva & Solveig Qu Suess), Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Hypercomf, Lito Kattou, Zissis Kotionis, Pablo de Lillo, Atmospheric Research Collective (Tom Corby, Gavin Baily, Jonathan Mackenzie, Louise Sime, Giles Lane, Erin Dickson, George Roussos), Matterlurgy (Helena Hunter & Mark Peter Wright), Barbara Marcel, Víctor Mazón, Petros Moris, Sybille Neumeyer, Afroditi Psarra & Audrey Briot, Rotor Studio (Ángeles Angulo y Román Torre), Susan Schuppli, Rachel Shearer & Cathy Livermore, Stefania Strouza, Superflux, Paky Vlassopoulou, Thomas Wrede.


“Motores del clima” explores the poetics, politics, and technologies of the environment from the ground to the sky, and from soil to atmosphere.

The weather is a dynamic system of pressure, temperature and humidity. It manifests through maps, media, and simulations while it touches the skin. Weather is felt unevenly, from extremes to mundane mildness of a breeze. Some are exposed, some are sheltered; weather wears some down, some gain profit.

“Motores del clima” is an art exhibition and a program of talks, performances and workshops taking place at LABoral - Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijon, Spain. It explores weather as a complex system, as observation and control, and as a lived experience. The projects and events refer to natural phenomena and climate change, past and contemporary strategies of engineering the weather, as well as to different sociopolitical atmospheres related to breathing and living. Approaching the models and systems of art as techniques of knowledge, “Motores del clima” addresses the need for climate justice, and for embracing the surrounding more-than-human world(s).

The exhibition is accompanied by the publication “Words of Weather: A glossary” that maps terms for a political ecology of experience.

Link to the exhibition.





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