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A performance and research programme asking what John Ruskin’s troubled account of a changing sky can make possible now.

About

On 4 February 1884, Victorian polymath John Ruskin delivered his controversial public lecture ‘Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century’, highlighting the disastrous results of nineteenth-century industrialisation, the human impact on the environment, and the effects of air pollution, a ‘plague-wind’ on our health. Led by interdisciplinary artist Dr. Tom Payne, Storm-Cloud is a collaborative programme of research, performance, community engagement and exhibition that invites contemporary re-imaginings of, and creative responses to, Ruskin’s prophetic lecture.

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Observations

of the Sky

Solo lecture performance.

The Better Knowledge

of Friends

Interdisciplinary dialogues.

Thrown into Form

Collaborative reinterpretation

of the lecture.

Impressions of

the Matter

An educational resource.

Projects

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Website design © Moot Works Ltd. All rights reserved.

Weather symbols adapted from those proposed by the First International Meteorological Congress, Vienna, 1873.

Photography by Becky Payne unless otherwise credited.

Additional image credits appear with individual works.

Storm-Cloud logo © Jake Goodall

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