“I just wanted some silence.
Instead, everything has become louder and louder.”
During their six-week residency, weather forecast immersed themselves in the many weathers of grief. Each day they wrote – together and alone, with their bodies, through emotion and in response to the shifting atmospheres.
They see talk about the weather not as a superficial conversation filler, but as a way of staying with. Their approach is shaped by affect theory, queer and crip theory and literary texts. The weather also formed the starting point for their somatic writing practice at Alpenhof: books on weather forecasting in the Bibliothek Andreas Züst, unpredictable rain, storms, heat, briefly appearing double rainbows, passing clouds, and the sense of time held in fog became vessels for writing about feelings and for developing spaces in which grief could be shared.
Towards the end of the residency, weather forecast held a small workshop with fellow residents, which was precious and helpful as feedback. They will continue to develop the methods for collaborative somatic writing that emerged from the stay, and share them in workshops – such as the course sharing words, which they will host in November 2025 at the Bachelor K++V at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
September 2025
Text + Fotos: weather forecast