It’s Not Raining. How to Perform the Weather in a Time of Climate Change

Abstract

This is an essay that reperforms as text a curatorial performance given at the School of Arts of the Catholic University in Porto, Portugal, on the 11th November 2023. In this curatorial performance I played works, read poems, let rice fall into a metal tin at different speeds and with different force; I read excerpts from books and encouraged participatory listening and sound making through text-scores. I did all this in order to generate, from an embodied experience, critical deliberations on how sound performs weather in a time of climate change. Here, this performance of weather is rewritten as a short reflective performance score for the readers’ own re-enactment and further deliberation.

Keywords

• Curatorial performance
• Environment as aesthetic
• Participatory listening
• Embodiment
• Sound
• Weather