WE ARE THE WEATHERS
Co-curation commission / funded group project (residency, events and festival). 1 July – 31 August 2023
ALTER- (Altitude Laboratory Transition Experiments Research) Switzerland

We are the Weathers – a TSOEG Team fieldwork programme

We are the Weathers is a counter-mapping project by members of the Temporal School of Experimental Geography (TSOEG). The project will use transdisciplinary fieldwork to explore the weather as a high mountain entity – we will investigate its shape-shifting characters, physical influences and event based performances. Drawing on local imaginaries and collective fieldwork we will remap the Val d’Anniviers to reflect the embodied presence of weather on the people, places, histories and futures of the Alpine landscape.

Summary:
Research residency staying at ALTER- shared residence apartments / varied studio space provision / 2-month public programme with workshops, sharing events and final festival / working with artists, cultural agents, high mountain science centres and cultural spaces

TSOEG Team:
François Leo Benner (aka Roisner), Spain
Luce Choules (aka Laroche), France
Laura Harrington, UK
E. Jackson, France
Carlo Rizzo, Italy

TSOEG extended team:
Mark Aitken, Finland / UK – editor of the collective film In the Mind of an Eye made as part of the final event
Meredith Root-Bernstein, France – part of the Alpage de Cottier event and contributor to the collective publication Fieldwork Documents

ALTER- Team:
Julie Beauvais and Horace Lundd, Co-founders, ALTER- (Altitude Laboratory Transition Experiments Research), residency program for artists and researchers in Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland | Ludmila Claude, photographer, and videographer for ALTER- editions, Zinal, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland | Virginie Poulin, expert in Sustainable Finance and Change Management, and co-facilitator (with French/English translation) in public events programme for ALTER- edition 2023, Grimentz, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland.

Project partners:
François Bussy, professor for igneous petrology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland | Judith Eeckman, hydro-climatologist, ceramist, and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland | Jean-Michel Fallot, lecturer and researcher of climatology, UNIL, represents the University of Lausanne at the Association Suisse de Géographie (ASG), Switzerland | Perrine Grand, guardian of the Cabane du Grand Mountet, Zinal, Switzerland | Loris Guilhaume, paraglider and Swiss champion of acrobatic paragliding (2021), founder of Zinal-Grimentz Parapente, Zinal, Switzerland | Sarah Huber, owner of Alpage de Cottier, Zinal, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland | Guillaume Jouvet, professor of glaciology at the Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland | Leïla Kebir, professor of Tourism and Territorial Economics at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, Sion, Switzerland | Brian McArdell, geologist and geomorphologist, Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland | Sylvie Peter, mountain guide and herbalist, Vissoie, Switzerland | Christophe Randin, biogeographer, director of the Jean-Marcel Aubert Foundation, researcher-lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland | Oliver Rendu, historian and archaeologist, doctoral student at the University of Basel and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland | Emmanuel Reynard, director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research (CIRM) and Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland | Lucienne Roh, scientific and cultural mediator for the Flore-Alpe Botanical Garden and its Research Centre, CAP, Champex-Lac, Switzerland | Andréa Savoy, researcher in public administration and geography, Sion, Switzerland | Pascal Zufferey, mountain guide, rescuer and alpinist, St Jean, Switzerland.

Keywords:
Environmental Art, Curated Landscape, Cultural Tourism, Industrial Ruin, Social Geography, Cultural History, Ecology, Geology, Survey and Mapping, Fieldwork.

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Link to ALTER- profiles
Link to ALTER- 2023 programme
Link to ALTER- 2023 labs & transmissions
Link to Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la montagne
Link to Val d’Anniviers tourism website

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TSOEG Atmosphères Sensibles images:

   
   

Invitation – 16 August 2024
Luce Choules (aka Laroche) Altitude and Gravity presentation and Immaterial Fields workshop, as part of the ALTER- 2024 edition ‘Déplacer des montagnes / Moving Mountains’ public event in Chandolin, Val d’Anniviers, Switzerland [read more].