Fake Forecasts

Tewa Barnosa received a grant for the development of new work. Fake Forecasts is an interdisciplinary installation and performance focusing on weather paranoia, and the loco-global political terror orchestrating manufactured warfare despite its complicity in climate catastrophes, investigating the abandonment of war torn disaster zones, and weaving tacit and experiential knowledge on the resilient attempts by indigenous communities to comprehend or articulate a scale of generational damage beyond repair, the work communicates the conditions for the survival of humans and non-humans, in geographies where the impact of ongoing colonial and totalitarian domination has produced isolation and inaccessibility, declaring that there are no rescue missions, but merely missions of recovery.

Tewa is a trans-disciplinary artist and cultural producer born in Tripoli and based in Amsterdam, her artistic practice spans across trajectories of visual arts, time-based media, and curatorial collaborations, her body of work consists of audio-visual installations, text, performance, expanded paintings and objects that are her tools and toys for investigating taboos and territories on the margins, Grounded in critical curiosity- and research based knowledge re-interpretation and re-production(s), She finds observations in historical and political contradiction, contemporary polarities, and the transitional “in-between” physical, psychological and public spaces. Tewa is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, a recipient of the Iwaelwahaus African Artist Award, and a former resident of the Berlin-based Fellowship for Artists at Risk by the Martin Roth Initiative.