Conflating prediction and actualisation, weather
lore and techno-agency, divination and doom, Weather Casting is a
moving-image work that explores shifts from forecasting the weather to
“casting” it into reality. Set within a future global tropics due to global
warming, the work speculates on the supposed “normalcy” of humanity’s future
geoengineering prowess to achieve mastery over the weather.
Comprising a series of fictional news presenters
reporting on geoengineered weather across the Asian–Pacific monsoon system that
spans Southeast Asia to East Asia - the two lobes of the same planetary engine.
The work weaves a world-building narrative of a fictional climate future,
centred on a monsoon system that brings not only moisture from the Indian Ocean
into and across Southeast and East Asia, but with it, millennia of myths and
religions.
In
the process, shaping and sharing not only the atmospheric, but also the
cultural across the regions.
