In response to the global climate emergency, Te Tuhi has joined 27 arts organisations across the world to form the World Weather Network, a ground-breaking constellation of ‘weather stations’ located across the world in oceans, deserts, mountains, farmland, rainforests, observatories, lighthouses and cities.

For one year starting on 21 June 2022, artists and writers will share ‘weather reports’ in the form of observations, stories, images and imaginings about their local weather and our shared climate, creating an archipelago of voices and viewpoints on a new global platform. Whilst each organisation is reporting on their local weather, every one of these ‘weather stations’ is connected by the over-heating of the world’s atmosphere. The World Weather Network presents alternative ways of responding to the world’s weather and climate, and is an invitation to look, listen, learn and act.

Te Tuhi’s weather report programme Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear will traverse the Maramataka, the Māori seasonal calendar, during which six artist collectives will radiate weather signals from around Te Moana Nui a Kiwa. Transmitting dispatches from Aotearoa New Zealand, Tonga, Niue and Samoa, Te Tuhi will become a weather station in a sea of islands, tracing the signs of a rapidly changing climate. From Matariki in June 2022 through the Spring and Autumn equinoxes until June 2023, artists, writers, communities and ecologists will transmit the new weathers of the Anthropocene in an online exhibition, hosted at tetuhi.art and on the World Weather Network website. In June 2023, an in-situ exhibition of Huarere will take place at Te Tuhi in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Curated by Janine Randerson, Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear includes participating artists Phil Dadson and Breath of Weather Collective, Maureen Lander with Denise Batchelor, Ron Bull, Stefan Marks, Heather Purdie, Janine Randerson, Rachel Shearer, PCA Archive and Paul Cullen, Julieanna Preston and Word Weathers, Layne Waerea and Kalisolaite ‘Uhila. Our first two projects to launch are Word Weathers and Kōea ō Tāwhirimātea: Weather Choir on 21 June 2022.

Word Weathers is an unfolding, livestreamed durational writing event. Artists and writers across the globe will write, read, image, sound, respond and perform a continuous planetary dawn from Aotearoa, New Delhi to Helsinki and many places in between over 17 hours, producing a living text that reflects on a biosphere in crisis.

Kōea ō Tāwhirimātea: Weather Choir installs an array of wind instruments in eight climate- challenged locations around Tonga, Niue, Samoa, Rarotonga and Aotearoa. The Breath of Weather Collective will create a ‘weather choir’ of winds using a kit-set resonator of Aeolian harp components designed by artist Phil Dadson, then posted to the islands to be combined with local materials.

IMAGE: Denise Batchelor, Te Hukatai: Sea Foams, Hokianga Nui A Kupe, 2022 (still). Image courtesy of the artist.

Offering different ways of looking at, listening to and living with the weather, the World Weather Network will share weather reports on its online platform filed by writers and artists from each international location: the Himalayas, the Mesopotamian Marshes in Iraq and the desert of the Arabian peninsula; the Great Salt Lake in Utah and Te Moana Nui a Kiwa in the South Pacific; ‘iceberg alley’ off the coast of Newfoundland, the waters of the Baltic Sea and the Arctic Circle; a tropical rainforest in Guyana and farmland in Ijebu in Nigeria. Artists and writers are working in observatories in Kanagawa in Japan and Manila in the Philippines; looking at cloud data in China and lichens in France; lighthouses on the coast of Peru, the Basque Country and the Snaefellsness peninsula in Iceland; and cities including Dhaka, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London and Seoul. Climate scientists, environmentalists and communities will participate in a wide-ranging programme of special events held in each location and online through the platform. Through the course of the year, the London Review of Books are commissioning special reports from writers based in many of the locations in the World Weather Network.

To learn more about Te Tuhi’s weather report programme, visit our website: tetuhi.art/world-weather-network

About the World Weather Network

The world's weather is not what it was. We see glaciers melting and water levels rising. Some lands are flooded and others are parched. Everywhere is heating up. Formed in response to the climate emergency, the World Weather Network is a constellation of weather stations set up by 28 arts agencies around the world and an invitation to look, listen, learn, and act. From 21 June 2022 to 21 June 2023, artists, writers and communities will share observations, stories, reflections and images about their local weather, creating an archipelago of voices and viewpoints. Engaging climate scientists and environmentalists, the World Weather Network brings together diverse world views and different ways of understanding the weather across multiple localities and languages. To learn more about the World Weather Network and other participating organisations, visit the global platform: www.worldweathernetwork.org

ARTANGEL, London
ARTINGENIUM, San Sebastián
ART JAMEEL, Dubai
ART SONJE CENTER, Seoul BUNDANON, New South Wales
DHAKA ART SUMMIT, Bangladesh
ENOURA OBSERVATORY, Japan
NICOLETTA FIORUCCI FOUNDATION, Grasse
FOGO ISLAND ARTS, Newfoundland
FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO, Torino
HOLT-SMITHSON FOUNDATION, New Mexico
ICELANDIC ARTS CENTRE, Reykjavik
IHME HELSINKI, Helsinki
KHOJ, New Delhi
MALI, Lima
MCAD, Manila
NEON, Athens
NGO, Johannesburg
WAAG, Amsterdam
RUYA FOUNDATION, Iraq
SAHA, Istanbul
SOPHIA POINT, Guyana
TERRA FOUNDATION, Comporta
TE TUHI, Aotearoa / New Zealand
UCCA, Beijing / Qinhuangdao
YINKA SHONIBARE FOUNDATION, Lagos / Ijebu
32 DEGREES EAST, Uganda

About Te Tuhi

Te Tuhi presents exhibitions at its Pakuranga gallery and via its extensive offsite programme throughout Auckland and beyond. All Te Tuhi exhibitions are free, as are most of its public programme of events. The gallery is open daily from 9am to 5pm. Admission is free. 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 2010, Aotearoa New Zealand

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