Notes on Reading Otherwise (Or Words Crack Open Deviously, Like Clouds)

Weather forecasts are an example of how narrative infrastructures such as language and ritual normalise algorithmic predictions to the point of being regarded as a given. Lina von Jaruntowski has explored divergent readings of the weather that challenge the notion that planetary conditions can be summed up in quantifiable data, and maintain a clear separation of human and nature. A participatory performative reading draws on stories of weather modification and control, interwoven with feminist counter-narratives of mythology and magic as anti-capitalist tools. The reading takes place in an installation centred around a homemade antenna and weather satellite decoding software, which facilitate an entanglement of bodies and more-than-meteorological weather.