Heated Scales: Weather Eye, Weather Ear

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The Heated Scales: Weather Eye, Weather Ear programme presents a series of recent works originally commissioned by Te Tuhi as part of the International World Weather Network. Curated by Janine Randerson, the screening programme features five sound and video commissions from Tia Barrett, Riki Pirihi, Jae Hoon Lee, Phil Dadson and Breath of Weather Collective, and Ron Bull, Janine Randerson, and Rachel Shearer. 

Artists keep a weather eye and ear on the volatile climate, from the intimate weather visions of insects and fish in Waitaki near Aoraki in the deep South, the soaring skies patrolled by the Kārearea (falcon) above the drumming heart of Moe-i-te rā (Brooklyn Hill) in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a series of Aoelian harps stationed at Coastal locations around Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa producing a-harmonic scales, to speculative futures where geological agglomerates emerge from oceans unknown as temperatures surge.

Together, they form a counter-mapping of weather’s eccentric course. At a political moment where resistance is required on behalf of the biosphere and te tangata in Aotearoa, artists maintain the 'voice' of the skies and the more-than-human in the social domain.

Janine Randerson is an artist, film and video maker and writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. From 2022–2024 Randerson curated Te Tuhi’s programme for the International World Weather Network, a platform that brings artists, writers, scientists, and communities together on topics of climate change. She has curated screening programmes including Place-Unmaking for the NZIFF with CIRCUIT; Fathomless: artists converse with the more-than-human at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington; and Heat: Solar Revolutions at Te Uru in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.