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Avgang 2026: Manos Saklas / Kairós: Listening Under the Weather

Kairós: Listening Under the Weather explores the concept of environmental attunement and the act of listening as an ecological practice. By acknowledging that environmental catastrophe as a no longer distant or abstract condition, the exhibition attempts to inhabit this situation rather than escape it. By proposing an embodied form of sensing, often encountered through metrics such as rising graphs and infrared satellite images reduced into phone screens, which distance us from the lived reality of climate. Here, weather is treated as an equally poetic and scientific subject; an atmospheric condition that sets mood, articulating the complexity of cosmic forces.

The title draws on the ancient Greek notion of Kairós; meaning both weather and the opportune moment to act. This notion feels increasingly relevant, where the crisis of time has become both environmental and existential. Weather oscillates between the tangible and the intangible, between scientific measurement and affective presence. It might be thought of considered simultaneously as an environmental condition, a mood, and a chaotic system of atmospheric phenomena that both exceed and enfold us. Kairós: Listening Under the Weather unfolds in a listening space at Podium as a durational sonic fiction composed of weather sounds: wind, thunderstorms, ice thawing, and other atmospheric turbulence, alongside air-conditioning, fossil extraction, and wind turbines. These are all anthropogenic sonorities, sounds that either directly influence or are associated with the climate. Drawn entirely from a collectively recorded archive of atmospheric phenomena, the composition brings together recordings spanning territories across southern and northern Europe, from southern Greece to the Arctic Circle, Iceland, and Svalbard.

By experimenting with temporal layering, arranging and juxtaposing the environmental recordings, they might appear as an inhabitable condition rather than a singular phenomenon observed from a distance. Weather recordings are treated less as climate evidence and more as agents in negotiation: they bend our sense of time and invite the listener to attune to an impossible weather that flows seamlessly between stasis and flux, articulating the complex entanglements of nature and culture. Alongside the listening space, a series of visual works enters into dialogue with the sonorous. These works are also questioning the nature of atmospheric phenomena, sharing the same source: a fictitious weather composition spanning geographies and times. Far from merely interpreting the sonic dimension visually, those images feed into the audible part and are somewhat sonorous themselves.

Opening: Friday February 27, 2026, 17.30–20.00
Opening Hours: February 27 – March 22, Saturday & Sunday, 12.00–17.00