WEATHER MASS MOVEMENT (Parts 1 & 2)

Public Screening and Lecture and Pancake Breakfast

with

SP Weather Station
Natalie Campbell & Heidi Neilson
in collaboration with VCUarts Art Foundation Students

Saturday, April 21st, 11AM
Anderson Gallery, 3rd floor
907 1/2 W. Franklin St.

http://www.spweatherstation.net

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WEATHER MASS MOVEMENT (Parts 1 & 2)

Nephology, or the study of clouds, has long been tied to field observation
and particularly to photography.  The first International Cloud Atlas,
published in 1896, contained 28 photographs taken by the Hon. Ralph
Abercromby, a wealthy British gentleman who circumnavigated the globe twice,
taking photographs to prove that cloud types are consistent worldwide.  As a
classification tool, photography has forever changed how clouds are
perceived and represented. And now we have satellite imagery and other tools
to visualize clouds and weather patterns.

During a workshop at  VCUarts April 19-21, SP Weather Station (Natalie Campbell
and Heidi Neilson) will collaborate with students in Hope Ginsburg’s Time
Studio course to stage Weather Mass Movement Parts 1 & 2, a collectively
constructed time lapse animation illustrating changes in the sky that take
place over time.  Following the student workshops on April 19th, SP Weather
Station will present photos and video of this work-in-progress and discusses past
works by SPWS and its collaborators that find new ways to represent or
reflect upon weather data and unseen natural forces.

Co-founded by artists Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson in 2007, SP Weather
Station is an interdisciplinary project that collects weather data, hosts a
Guest Lecture Series, and organizes weather-related publications, events,
and exhibitions. As an informal umbrella organization, SPWS invites
participation from many other artists, groups, and weather enthusiasts,
while maintaining a rooftop station base in Long Island City, New York.

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“Like a Sponge Needs a Tricycle” is an upcoming collaboration between Tricycle Gardens and Sponge. Tricycle Gardens is leading the urban agriculture and community garden movement in Richmond, VA. Director Lisa Taranto has initiated a collaboration with Sponge and VCUarts students to do a biodiversity count on her Manchester farm.