Public programme
Opening
14 April, 15:00 Opening of ‘Another Space Agency is Possible ASAP’
Opening Hours
14 – 19 April 2026 Daily, 14:00 – 19:00
20 April – 10 May 2026 Fridays & Saturdays, 14:00 – 19:00
Location
Press-Haus, Brunnenstubenweg 6, 1180 Vienna
To reach the exhibtion Take Tram 40 to its final stop, Eckpergasse. It is then a short walk to the Press-Haus, Brunnenstubenweg 6.
Public programme
All events are at the Press-Haus Ground Station, weather permitting
Friday, 17 April 2026, 14:00 – 17:00
Artist Talk
Another Space Agency is Possible (ASAP)
with Sophie Dyer, moderated by Juni-Nyusta Ruckendorfer
In an era of climate crisis what are the space agencies that we need and want? In this talk, Sophie Dyer will share their experience of building a patchy yet planetary parallel infrastructure of remote sensing as part of the open-weather project, which they co-led with geographer Sasha Engelmann. Can this infrastructure be understood as a feminist space agency? If so, what other kinds of space agencies or approaches to remote sensing might already exist elsewhere under different conditions?
Saturday, 18 April 2026, 11:00 – 17:00
Workshop
How to Read a Storm
With Vinita Deshmukh and Sophie Dyer
Morning and afternoon are booked separately.
11:00 – 13:00 pm Radio and remote sensing
14:00 – 17:00 pm Amateur weather forecasting
Free!
Capacity:
15 PAX morning
20 PAX afternoon
To read a storm is to map the structure of a cyclone and to understand its excess heat as inseparable from four centuries of extractivism. The morning will be an introduction to radio and remote sensing. In the after- noon, guided by scientific models and participants' experiences of the weather, we will explore how to ‘read’ storms in the sky and in satellite imagery.
Vinita Deshmukh is a researcher in meteorology and climate science at University of Vienna. She researches large-scale weather patterns, including storms and extreme events, such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall. Deshmukh is dedicated to making weather data and satellite imagery accessible to the public.
What do participants need to bring?
A laptop, fully charged (the software we will use drains the battery)
If using a Laptop with only USB-C ports, a USB-A to USB-C adapter (morning only)
Access and inclusion
Please share a week in advance any access requirements
The workshop will be held in English.
Sign up for the event
Saturday, 2 May 2026
Drop-in between 13:00 –16:00, weather permitting*
Sun printing workshop for all ages
Come and make prints with the power of the sun’s rays in the garden of the Press-Haus. Bring objects to print or collect plants with us.
*In the event of wet or cloudy weather this workshop will be rescheduled.
No booking required.
Announced 10 days prior to taking place
Demonstration, 30 mins
Collective Weather Readings
Join us in the Press-Haus garden in the morning and evening to receive the live transmissions of weather satellites Check Echo Correspondence social media and the Press-Haus noticeboard for dates and times. No booking required.
Echo Correspondence presents Another Space Agency is Possible (ASAP), a project by British designer Sophie Dyer.
From 14 April to 10 May 2026, ASAP will transform the Press-Haus of Kleingartenverein Brunnstube into a communal ground station receiving live transmissions from weather satellites and hosting discussions on weather, space, and collective practices for living with, and responding, to the climate crisis.
For five years, Dyer co-led the feminist art, technology, and pedagogy collective open-weather. Co-founded with geographer Sasha Engelmann, the project evolved into a patchwork planetary network of more than 100 DIY satellite ground stations, stretching from Vienna to Valparaíso, Phnom Penh, and Svalbard. This volunteeroperated network recorded ‘hundred-year’ storms, wildfires, turbulent political climates, and the slow death of the last publicly accessible analogue weather satellites.
Framing open-weather as a feminist space agency, ASAP asks: what other space agencies exist? How might they alter our perception of the planet – and, in turn, how we relate to it and to each other? These questions are explored through a conversational sound work, material experiments, and the staging of the ground station itself.
So we are here in the weather,
here in the singularity.
Here there is disaster and possibility.
Christina Sharpe, 2016
Echo Correspondence is an artistist-in-residence program dedicated to producing site-specific research through spatial practice and critical inquiry.
Sophie 'Soph' Dyer is a designer, artist, and educator whose work explores feminist and anticolonial approaches to weather, climate, and social justice. As co-lead of open-weather, they built accessible tools and infrastructure for DIY satellite imagery reception and decoding. Beyond the arts, Dyer’s investigative work contributed to a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department for its use of facial recognition technology and to numerous human rights reports as part of Amnesty International’s Evidence Lab. Twice nominated for the European Union’s S+T+ARTS Prize, they are currently an external advisor to Forensic Architecture and teach at Design Academy Eindhoven.
ASAP Collaborators
Curated by Juni-Nyusta Ruckendorfer
With contributions from open-weather (Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann), Vinita Deshmukh (University of Vienna), Daisy Hildyard, Michèle Boulogne, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Ameneh Solati, Veronika Platz, and Anna Lebedieva.
For open-weather: Rectangle (Daniel Powers and Lizzie Malcolm), Grayson Earle, Bill Liles NQ6Z
Translation of audio work to German by Lorena Pircher
Alternative printing processes made with Giulio Paolini at Die Druckstube
Special thanks to Miruh Frutiger and Jurij Hartmann (Echo Correspondence), Ellen Viste, Veronika Platz, greenlab, Victoria Nazarova, Nicola Locatelli, Robert
Preusse, Maria Neri, Sybille Neumeyer, the Non Linear Narrative programme at Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Max Kure, and Leo Mühlfeld
Echo Correspondence is an artistist-in-residence programme dedicated to producing site-specific research through spatial practice and critical inquiry.
Im Rahmen der Klima Biennale Wien 2026, ein Projekt des KunstHausWien
Design by Operative Space. Printed by Replikat Press.
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