The Fogo Island Red Weather Station, 2022
by Liam Gillick
(wood, paint, solar powered instruments)
Watermans Brook Trail, Fogo Island
On Fogo Island, take route 333 towards the town of Fogo. Just before entering town after the grey church, turn left towards Watermans Brook Trail. There you can park and hike the trail up to the weather station.
Liam Gillick’s A Variability Quantifier (The Fogo Island Red Weather Station), 2022 is an artwork intended to function as an operational weather station for Fogo Island. It gathers local weather data and is a place for education, reflection, and discussion. The site and work are open and people are encouraged to visit the weather station year round.
As a functional weather station, it is gathering and reporting local weather conditions, tracking essential data that can be used in mapping the changing climate on Fogo Island and providing more accurate readings of the current weather conditions. Prior to its arrival, the weather conditions on Fogo Island were reliant on triangulated weather updates from Twillingate, approximately a hundred kilometres away. The Weather Station asserts the importance of connecting with local weather, especially as our climate.
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