Quotidian is a seven-channel video installation developed through engagement with the seven people based in Co. Kildare who partake in the national Weather Observation Network. On a daily basis, these off-grid and offline volunteers collect data for Met Éireann from privately installed rainfall stations. Quotidian looks at the volunteers’ systematic record-keeping as a personal rhythm tied to the body and considers their long-term role in the face of computational technologies and eventual automation. In addition, the work inquires into institutional systems of weather recording, meteorology and the planetary climate, while examining ideas of location, ritual and love.

Quotidian was accompanied by the Artist Book Every Single Morning.

2019 events included Quotidian Symposium The Art of Citizen-Science: Monitoring a Climate Crisis, a conversation with Kildare's Weather Observers, Martina O’Brien, Dr Catherine O’Connell, Irish Peatlands Conservation Council, Dr Lisa Orme, Co-Director MSc Climate Change, Geography & ICARUS), Prof Karen Till, Geography, and Lucina Russell, Arts Officer, Kildare Arts Service in Maynooth University, 28th of November.

2018 events included Quotidian: Art, Climate Change and Citizen-Scientists, a public seminar based on mutual exchange between Kildare’s Weather Observers, Martina O’Brien and Climate Change, Historical and Cultural Geographers at Maynooth University; Dr Conor Murphy (ICARUS), Prof Gerry Kearns and Prof Karen Till in Maynooth University, 19th of November.

Kindly supported by a Creative Ireland Bursary Award (2018) through Kildare County Council Arts Service.