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Accepted Paper:

Weathered art : co-creation of humans, art and weather  
Linda Bolsakova (University of Dundee)

Paper short abstract:

This paper explores the symbiotic relationship between humans and the weather by drawing on philosophical analysis and insights gained from my experience as an artist. By following the transformation of natural materials my artwork explores seasonal changes in relation to human life cycles.

Paper long abstract:

Humans and plants are both immersed in weather. They, like us have lived their lives and through color, shape and texture tell their stories. When working with weathered materials it is important to have a cooperative attitude and acute awareness of the senses. Through observation and interaction with weathered plants it is possible to learn about changes in life, and how the meaning or understanding of youth, for example, is present in the sprouting. Meaning, as philosophical hermeneutics well knows, is inherent in neither the perceiver nor the perceived but in the very interaction between them. Art and more broadly human creation is part of the environment and subject to its changes. They are tightly entwined: as we shape the materials available to us, we are being shaped ourselves; creations further become part of the environment and participate in this reciprocal relationship. The dichotomy of the perceived and perceiver dissipates into mutual co-creation.

The experience of weather and art has a reflexive effect where by experiencing the other, we experience ourselves. Weathered plants and artifacts also allow us to see beyond our human sphere into the global unraveling of life- a larger process of which we are a part of but not the center, like anything else that takes form.

Panel P15
Life in atmospheric worlds: everyday knowledge and perception of weather
  Session 1