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Forecast: An Exhibition Inviting Slow Feeling Through Participation in Unstable Weather States
Australian journal of environmental education, Vol.42(3), pp.920-933
2026
Abstract
This paper presents a series of responses from Western Australian based artists and scholars from a range of disciplines including: meteorology, science, education, social work, psychology, art and performance studies, to a year-long exhibition titled Forecast in Gallery 09 at The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA). Forecast is a collaboration between AGWA’s Head of Learning and Creativity Research, Lilly Blue, Edith Cowan University’s Centre for People, Place and Planet artist-scholar, Jo Pollitt, together with artists Dianne Jones and Eva Fernández. The exhibition invites audiences to contribute to two participatory works: Weather Patterns, a daily changing installation that makes room for slow feeling, attention and care at a time of rising eco-anxiety and climate grief, and Disappearing Forests, which encourages participants to paint evaporating treescapes with water. Forecast was the stimulus for a discussion among and between interdisciplinary artists and scholars in reflecting on extreme weather, resilience building and the arts. This article proposes the embodied and participatory methods of the exhibition as a model for engaging in feeling with and responding to the climate crisis. Each of the responses draw on the exhibition to consider the ways in which Forecast in its negotiation of weather states opens up questions of response and responsibility, of time, pace and scale and, ultimately, how the exhibition invites audiences to engage in a process of slow feeling as they participate in and reflect on their experience of weather in the exhibition.
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- Title
- Forecast: An Exhibition Inviting Slow Feeling Through Participation in Unstable Weather States
- Authors/Creators
- Jo Pollitt - Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) & Centre for People, Place, and Planet (CPPP), Edith Cowan Universityhttps://ror.org/05jhnwe22, AustraliaHelena Grehan - Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) & Centre for People, Place, and Planet (CPPP), Edith Cowan Universityhttps://ror.org/05jhnwe22, AustraliaLilly Blue - Art Gallery of New South WalesPeggy Attkinson - Edith Cowan UniversityJustine Dandy - Edith Cowan UniversityNaomi Joy Godden - Edith Cowan UniversityLeanda Mason - Edith Cowan UniversityRenee Esther Newman - Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Edith Cowan University, AustraliaAlexa Taylor - Edith Cowan UniversityDanielle Gilson - Murdoch University, Australia
- Publication Details
- Australian journal of environmental education, Vol.42(3), pp.920-933
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 14
- Identifiers
- 991005909775607891
- Copyright
- © The Author(s), 2026.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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