This limited edition publication is part of The weather has been cancelled (TWHBC), an artwork in the form of an interactive-fiction videogame. In the game environment, the player wakes up and discovers that the weather has been ‘cancelled’. Then the quest is revealed: The world needs you. You have to find out who cancelled the weather, and get it back! If you fail to restore the weather by midnight, all life on Earth will begin to perish. Good luck.

Subsequently, the player is left to dwell the weatherless earth.

The weather’s disappearance leaves a stunned world. Global speculation arises on who took the weather and what the possible relationship with climate change could be. Notably, now that the weather has disappeared, climate change has been ‘solved’… In a heated debate, the hard and soft sciences battle over what the weather is, different cultures question the disappearance of the weather as a mystical, supernatural event, philosophers debate the concept of nature in its Platonic form, while various countries blame geo-engineering and colonial enterprises. Meanwhile, people mourn the weather: through cultural expressions such as songs, poems, films and artworks.

Part of group exhibition Shifting Weathers at Villa Heike Kunstverein in Berlin (D). On view until 2 May 2026. >>>

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