WEATHER FORECAST by Dovile Aleksaite

Curated by Tiny Domingos

Part of the Project Space Festival 2023 – a community of spaces.

Photos: Piotr Pietrus

Dovile Aleksaite addresses issues related to eco-anxiety, mental health, and personal connections to the natural environment. Aleksaite’s sound performance and installation, Weather Forecast, explores the relationship between emotions and weather. The original narration and soundscapes in the performance create a meditative journey that explores the ever-changing nature of our inner states. The installation accompanying the performance presents drawings and video work that reflect on weather measurement models and predictability.One of the models explored is the visual and subjective Beaufort wind force scale, which marks one of the starting points of modern weather forecasting. Together with the emotions map of Dr. David Hawkins, this metaphorical weather forecast creates a new hybrid measurement system. In this fictional weather forecast, inner states intertwine with those from the outside world, so weather and emotions augment and become one another.

The word “emotion” comes from the Latin word “emovere,” which means “to move, to agitate, to disturb.” It is defined as “that which moves us” or affects us, much like the weather. Both weather and our emotions can be beautiful and powerful, yet also unpredictable and tumultuous. The performative event invites visitors to develop a deeper sense of self-awareness while also reflecting on their connections to the natural environment.

Dovilė Aleksaitė is a Lithuanian artist, working with video and performance. She has been studying Art and Media at UdK Berlin, and currently lives and works in Berlin. Her practice explores the questions of anthropocentric worldview, notions of nature and time, emotions and human vs. non-human consciousness. Her works were presented in group exhibitions at  the Centre Pompidou, at the AdK Berlin, at HKW, and New York German House among others.