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

The theme of ecology is perhaps inevitable in Kairós: Listening Under the Weather – an exhibition exploring the concept of environmental attunement through situating listening as an ecological practice. Acknowledging that environmental catastrophe is no longer a hypothetical future, the exhibition attempts to inhabit this condition instead of escaping it. Here, meteorology is treated as an equally poetic and scientific subject – an atmospheric condition that sets the background tone, while being entangled with the complexity of unpredictable forces.

Conceived as an ephemeral listening space installed at Podium, Kairós: Listening Under the Weather unfolds as a durational sonic fiction composed of weather recordings: wind, thunderstorms, ice thawing, alongside anthropogenic resonances that either directly influence or are associated with climate change such as air conditioning, severe weather sirens, and wind turbines. A spatialized assemblage of these invites the audience to inhabit a fictitious weather situated between nature and culture.

Manos Saklas is an artist and a composer working across contemporary art, radio production and electro-acoustic music. His artistic practice engages with cultural artifacts and compositional methodologies drawn from fields as conceptual art, electroacoustic music, Greek mythology, acoustic ecology and weather-sensing technologies – often underscoring their sociopolitical resonances.

This work is partly produced at NOTAM - Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music, and with the generous support of Kunstnernes Hus.

Manos Saklas - Kairós: Listening Under the Weather
Opening: Friday, February 27, 2026, 5:30–8 PM
Dates: February 27 – March 22 2026
Hours: Saturday & Sunday, 12–5 PM