Relative Humidity - Art Jameel

Art Jameel’s weather station, broadcasting from the Jameel Arts Centre, explores atmospheric humidity- a measure of water vapour in the air and a central climatic marker of the Arabian Gulf. As temperatures rise around the globe, so do humidity levels – with vast consequences for human and non-human life.

Relative Humidity features stories by Noush Anand, Nadim Choufi, Isaac Sullivan and Nadine Khalil, Nidhi Mahajan, and Deepak Unnikrishnan. Together, they think about the role humidity plays in our experience of daily life, now and in the future-from how we play music, to how we sweat, to how we perceive the landscape around us.

Cover image: Nadim Choufi, How we entertain the angels with our brief animation (2023), digital print. Courtesy of the artist.

Artist and educator Nidhi Mahajan presents a work that brings to life labour and sweat at sea. Based on ethnographic and archival research but written as a series of experiments in fiction, poetry, and life histories, the three-part audio essay examines different forms of maritime labour in the Gulf: pearl diving, dhow labour, and an account of a runaway sailor who once worked on a ship that moved from East Africa to the Gulf.

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Sweat At Sea By Nidhi Mahajan

Art Jameel’s weather station, broadcasting from the Jameel Arts Centre, explores atmospheric humidity- a measure of water vapour in the air and a central climatic marker of the Arabian Gulf. As temperatures rise around the globe, so do humidity levels – with vast consequences for human and non-human life.

Relative Humidity features stories by Noush Anand, Nadim Choufi, Isaac Sullivan and Nadine Khalil, Nidhi Mahajan, and Deepak Unnikrishnan. Together, they think about the role humidity plays in our experience of daily life, now and in the future-from how we play music, to how we sweat, to how we perceive the landscape around us.

Cover image: Nadim Choufi, How we entertain the angels with our brief animation (2023), digital print. Courtesy of the artist.

Noush Anand’s interviews with Hindustani vocalist Jogiraj Sikidar & Opera Singer Carlo Marmo explore the relationship between environment and the vocal body. Instruments, whether they are made from wood or flesh, are subject to fluctuation. Our metabolism interfaces us between body and environment. As we approach 100% humidity, can music affect our environment in return?

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As We Approach 100 Humidity By Noush Anand

Art Jameel’s weather station, broadcasting from the Jameel Arts Centre, explores atmospheric humidity- a measure of water vapour in the air and a central climatic marker of the Arabian Gulf. As temperatures rise around the globe, so do humidity levels – with vast consequences for human and non-human life.

Relative Humidity features stories by Noush Anand, Nadim Choufi, Isaac Sullivan and Nadine Khalil, Nidhi Mahajan, and Deepak Unnikrishnan. Together, they think about the role humidity plays in our experience of daily life, now and in the future-from how we play music, to how we sweat, to how we perceive the landscape around us.

Cover image: Nadim Choufi, How we entertain the angels with our brief animation (2023), digital print. Courtesy of the artist.

Isaac Sullivan and Nadine Khalil address logics and thresholds of museum preservation through two interwoven voices. Their interlocutor Chyron – an AI, large language model chatbot created by Sullivan in 2022 – converses with Khalil´s voicing of Clouds, Heat, Condensation, Seepage, and Thresholds – inspired by artworks from around the world.

[Clouds] Responds to STORM (2022), a performative video by Harshini Karunaratne
[Heat] Responds to Merging Fields, Splitting Ends (Sequence III) (2021) by Gülşah Mursaloğlu
[Condensation] Responds to Condensations of the Invisible Space (2021) by Caline Aoun
[Seepage] Responds to And Now, The Weather (2021) by Mays Albaik.
[Thresholds] Responds to two letters by Gala Porras-Kim: Mediating with the Rain (2021) and Precipitation for an Arid Landscape (2021)

Learn more about Art Jameel via ⁠www.artjameel.org⁠ and on Instagram ⁠[at]art_jameel⁠

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Objects In The Act Of Vanishing By Isaac Sullivan And Nadine Khalil

Art Jameel’s weather station, broadcasting from the Jameel Arts Centre, explores atmospheric humidity- a measure of water vapour in the air and a central climatic marker of the Arabian Gulf. As temperatures rise around the globe, so do humidity levels – with vast consequences for human and non-human life.

Relative Humidity features stories by Noush Anand, Nadim Choufi, Isaac Sullivan and Nadine Khalil, Nidhi Mahajan, and Deepak Unnikrishnan. Together, they think about the role humidity plays in our experience of daily life, now and in the future-from how we play music, to how we sweat, to how we perceive the landscape around us.

Cover image: Nadim Choufi, How we entertain the angels with our brief animation (2023), digital print. Courtesy of the artist.

In Deepak Unikrishnan’s science fiction tale, the surface of the earth becomes a threshold between continuity and oblivion, and between a man and his dog.

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The Last Dog On Earth By Deepak Unnikrishnan

Art Jameel’s weather station, broadcasting from the Jameel Arts Centre, explores atmospheric humidity- a measure of water vapour in the air and a central climatic marker of the Arabian Gulf. As temperatures rise around the globe, so do humidity levels – with vast consequences for human and non-human life.

Relative Humidity features stories by Noush Anand, Nadim Choufi, Isaac Sullivan and Nadine Khalil, Nidhi Mahajan, and Deepak Unnikrishnan. Together, they think about the role humidity plays in our experience of daily life, now and in the future-from how we play music, to how we sweat, to how we perceive the landscape around us.

Cover image: Nadim Choufi, How we entertain the angels with our brief animation (2023), digital print. Courtesy of the artist.

Beirut-based artist Nadim Choufi takes us to a not too distant future in Abu Dhabi, where vapour, heat and light intersect to create new realities and other worldly forms.

Learn more about Art Jameel via ⁠www.artjameel.org⁠ and on Instagram ⁠[at]art_jameel⁠

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Relative Humidity - Art Jameel

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