Teleconnections

Teleconnections is a term used in climate science to describe causal relationships between far distant climate zones. Beyond a merely meteorological perspective, the groups exhibition puts into discourse the correlations between climates, media and politics.

For the group show curated by Sybille Neumeyer, open-weather presented documentation of a workshop it held in the gallery, before the opening. The workshop was the first public event of the Year of Weather, a durational and participatory project archiving the last transmissions of three analogue weather satellites on the verge of decommissioning. Combined, the satellites’ transmissions and volunteers’ notes form a collective record of the more-than-meteorological weather over twelve months when the global temperature has exceeded 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels, for the first time.

Held on the eve of the devastating once in a generation Storm Boris, or Anett as it was known in German media, the workshop’s participants inadvertently captured images of the weather system.

For the exhibition, open-weather tiled newspaper prints of analogue photographs of the collective process of learning to receive analogue satellite transmissions. Satellite imagery from the workshop was then printed on the reverse to create the appearance of a ‘double-exposure’ when backlit. This effect references the multiple exposures recorded in the satellite imagery – from the satellite signal to radio frequency noise, obstruction of buildings and trees, the movement of antenna and its holder – and embodied experience of simultaneous remote and in-situ sensing.

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