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From: maria miranda [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Mon 7/3/2006 8:36 AM
To: Norie Neumark
Subject: please contribute to our weathertalk blog
 
Dear friends and fellow breathers,
We'd like to invite you to contribute to our breath collection at  
'Talking About the Weather' Blog.
More info about the project is below. Or you could visit the Blog and  
see for yourself.
http://www.scanz.net.nz/weathertalk/

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How to contribute to our breath collection:

Go to our collaborative blog, Talking About the Weather:
http://www.scanz.net.nz/weathertalk/

scroll down - clik on Login

user name: rainy
password: breath

This will take you  to the Dashboard:
Clik on Write a Post

After writing your post and choosing a category
Clik on Publish.

Thanx
maria + norie

About the Project:

"The air you just exhaled has already spread far and wide. The CO2  
from a breath last week may now be feeding a plant on a distant  
continent, or plankton in a frozen sea. In a matter of months all of  
the CO2 you just exhaled will have dispersed around the planet."    
Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers

Talking About the Weather is an ongoing cross media project exploring  
our own response to the terrifying spectre of global climate change.  
Sheer terror at the possibilities that are being talked about led us  
to 'talking about the weather'. The weather, once a safe way for  
strangers to connect, is now fraught with an edge of danger as  
ominous signs of global warming multiply. In this project weathertalk  
is no longer a banal exchange of local weather forecasts, but instead  
we ask people to donate their breath - the breath which they would  
normally use to talk about the weather and the same breath that is  
spread far and wide as described by Tim Flannery.

Working with breath emphasises the dynamic nature of the atmosphere  
and our part in its creation and destruction. As Tim Flannery says,  
every breath you take makes you part of a dynamic system called the  
atmosphere, or the aerial ocean.

Talking about the Weather involves performative encounters, where we  
perform two Australian visitors to a foreign place asking for  
donations to our breath collection (to be the largest in the world)  
with which we will blow back global warming. These performative  
encounters continue our work with the 'pataphysical mode of an  
imaginary solution for an actual problem. in this case - global  
warming.

We have been 'documenting' the encounters on video and there is a  
link to excerpts on the blog. So far we have collected breath in New  
Hampshire in the US; Dordrecht, Amsterdam, Delft and Den Haag in the  
Netherlands; and Paris, France. The first cycle of the work has been  
exhibited at G&A Studios in Sydney in April, 2006, in their Drawing  
II show, it was called "Drawing Breath" where we asked people to  
literally draw breath on paper as well as to draw in their breath.

During our forthcoming (July 3-17) new media residency in New Zealand  
(SCANZ), we will set up a 'weather room' on the local radio - in  
order to collect more breath. We will be exhibiting the breath  
collections, including your contributions, at Govett-Brewster Gallery  
in New Zealand in mid July, so please contribute soon.

http://www.scanz.net.nz/weathertalk/



Who we are:

Out-of-Sync is a collaboration between Australian media artists Norie  
Neumark and Maria Miranda.
For more info see our website:
http://www.out-of-sync.com/index.html









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