Elsa Casanova

LA BANALIDAD DE HABLAR DEL TIEMPO

(The banality of talking about the weather)

This research project on the representation of the weather aims to review the influence of meteorological representations on our relationship with the climate crisis. The banality that surrounds the imaginary of weather talk is used as a vehicle to problematise attitudes of climate weariness and nihilism. Every crisis is influenced by the narratives that are generated around it. Activist Adrienne Maree Brown (Maree Brown + Solnit, 2022) explains that in climate action there is an element of fiction, of storytelling, as we are shaping a future for which we long but have not yet experienced. Therefore, to represent time is also to make time, like a self-fulfilling prophecy. That which we represent does not precede its representation, but it is this very representation that produces what it represents. The conceptualisation is made for an audiovisual format, in which streaming cameras and the use of chroma green are key tools with which to experiment. These instruments generate a dichotomy between representation and reality, in a way that highlights the frictions between image and construction and how they influence each other.

The project is accompanied by Maria Alcaide.

Elsa Casanova

LA BANALIDAD DE HABLAR DEL TIEMPO

(The banality of talking about the weather)

This research project on the representation of the weather aims to review the influence of meteorological representations on our relationship with the climate crisis. The banality that surrounds the imaginary of weather talk is used as a vehicle to problematise attitudes of climate weariness and nihilism. Every crisis is influenced by the narratives that are generated around it. Activist Adrienne Maree Brown (Maree Brown + Solnit, 2022) explains that in climate action there is an element of fiction, of storytelling, as we are shaping a future for which we long but have not yet experienced. Therefore, to represent time is also to make time, like a self-fulfilling prophecy. That which we represent does not precede its representation, but it is this very representation that produces what it represents. The conceptualisation is made for an audiovisual format, in which streaming cameras and the use of chroma green are key tools with which to experiment. These instruments generate a dichotomy between representation and reality, in a way that highlights the frictions between image and construction and how they influence each other.

The project is accompanied by Maria Alcaide.