[Green] Fw: The Language of Catastrophe

[Rebecca Phillips]

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A Thousand Words for Weather; The Seed Huntress
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A Thousand Words for Weather
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“I really enjoyed that hovering between understanding and not understanding, and being quite reflective of how we experience weather. Because if you explain snow to someone who’s never actually experienced snow, how much sense does it make?”

In June 2022, Artangel’s installation A Thousand Words for Weather opened at London’s Senate House Library. Created by author Jessica J. Lee and sound artist Claudia Molitor, the piece invites listeners to consider the ways in which our experiences of weather—and climate change—are at once intimate, shared, yet untranslatable.  We’re pleased to share this conversation between the two of them reflecting on the project<https://orionmagazine.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a20a057eb8ad01dda717c6405&id=d12e50a361&e=3e64f2a21a>.

The Language of Catastrophe
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“Should there be a new language for this off-kilter world? When mackerel, the traditional catch of West African and Spanish fishers, show up in Iceland, are they still mackerel? Are pelicans that glide over the Schuylkill River, at least five degrees north of their historical habitat, still pelicans, or must we translate them?”

Anna Badkhen questions the known inadequacy, relative stasis, and something like transplanted or transposed understanding of language in a world that is spinning out of balance<https://orionmagazine.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a20a057eb8ad01dda717c6405&id=795658f272&e=3e64f2a21a>.

Learn from The Seed Huntress
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