In collaboration with the KONTEKTS Collective, we are excited to share our film and live performance program encompassing elemental media and the weather.

Smoke Light Stone Rain explores the possibilities of cinema for weathering. "Weathering", developed by Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker (2014), offers a response to the abstract nature of climate change, instead, proposing to bring climate change home, to the body. By attending towards the experience of climate within/upon our own bodies, we can bridge the distance between the enormity and resulting incomprehensibility of the climate crisis and "the immediacy of our own flesh" (562). In doing so, we offer up our bodies as archives of the climate, and remember the ways we continually (re)make future climates possible.

Through the shared space of this program, we tentatively ask: How are we as audience members weathered through cinema? How do the images and sound touch our bodies, reminding us of our own elemental entanglements? Furthermore, how do we touch back? How does our shared viewing in turn weather the films unfolding? ... Haptic spectatorship as we share this space.

Doors open at 6.30pm
Showtime at 7pm
Atlas Cinema

On the theme of "weathering", the venue is open to the elements - please dress warmly/ prepare to be with the wind.

Please contact hello@kontekstcollective.com for further details or accessibility requirements.

Tickets and full program: https://atlasmay25.eventive.org/schedule/67fa29b5fbffbd51d59f6200