The Observatory of Precipitation is a collection of nine illustrated
memories by artist Feifei Zhou, commissioned by Artangel for the World Weather
Network.
Jessica J Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental
historian, and winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for
Nonfiction, the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature, the Banff
Mountain Book Award, and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. She
is the author of two books of nature writing, Turning and
Two Trees Make a Forest
, and co-editor of the essay collection Dog Hearted. She
has a PhD in Environmental History and Aesthetics and was
Writer-in-Residence at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology in
Berlin from 2017–2018. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb
Review and teaches creative writing at the University of Cambridge.
Leo Boix:
Leo Boix is an Argentine-British poet, translator and journalist based
in the UK. He is the author of an English collection,
Ballad of a Happy Immigrant
(Chatto & Windus, 2021) and two Spanish collections,
Un lugarpropio
(2015) and Mar de noche (2017). Boix has won the Bart Wolffe
Poetry Prize Award and the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry.
Marta Dziurosz:
Marta Dziurosz is an English-Polish-English literary translator,
Translator in Residence at the Free Word Centre in London, and works at
publisher Pan Macmillan. She is also an exhibiting photographer.
Nikhat Hoque:
Nikhat Hoque is a writer and researcher, founder Sufi Soup and Kētābi,
and co-founder of DIS/MIS. She is a contributing writer for Feminism in
India and has also written for publications including Bad Form and
Critical Muslim.
Ayça Türkoğlu:
Ayça Türkoğlu is a literary translator working from German and Turkish.
She lives in North London.
Nina Mingya Powles:
Nina Mingya Powles is a writer, zinemaker and librarian from Aotearoa
New Zealand, currently based in London. She is the author of several
pamphlets, zines and poetry books, most recently Magnolia 木蘭 and a
collection of essays, Small Bodies of Water.
Iris Colomb:
Iris Colomb is an artist, poet, curator, editor, lecturer and translator
based in London. Her practice merges poetry and other art forms to
explore various relationships between visual and verbal forms of text
through projects involving performance, poetic book-objects,
experimental translation, and improvisation.
A Thousand Words for Weather
The Observatory of Precipitation was inspired by
A Thousand Words for Weather
, a multilingual dictionary of weather words conceived by writer
Jessica J Lee and created in collaboration with eight other poets (all of
whom contributed interviews to The Observatory of Precipitation -
credited above). The dictionary was previously reimagined as a sonic installation at Senate House Library
from 22 June 2022 to 25 March 2023.
World Weather Network
The World Weather Network is a global alliance of 28 arts agencies around
the world, formed in response to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss;
a network of artists and writers reporting on their weather and our
climate. To find out more visit worldweathernetwork.org.