WEATHER CASTING

Single Channel Art Video | 35 m | 2026

Conflating prediction and actualisation, weather lore and techno-agency, divination and doom, Weather Casting is a moving-image work that explores shifts from forecasting the weather to “casting” it into reality. Set within a future global tropics due to global warming, the work speculates on the supposed “normalcy” of humanity’s future geoengineering prowess to achieve mastery over the weather.

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Comprising a series of fictional news presenters reporting on geoengineered weather across the Asian–Pacific monsoon system that spans Southeast Asia to East Asia - the two lobes of the same planetary engine. The work weaves a world-building narrative of a fictional climate future, centred on a monsoon system that brings not only moisture from the Indian Ocean into and across Southeast and East Asia, but with it, millennia of myths and religions.

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In the process, shaping and sharing not only the atmospheric, but also the cultural across the regions.

Director: Kent Chan

Line Producer : Ruoyao Jane Yao