Art Metropole

#09861

Cloudbuster Project Maroc (English)

Artist

Christoph Keller

Date

2010

Publisher

Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite

Format

Artists' Books

Details

Softcover

ISBN

978-3-943514-01-8

Size

11 × 17 × 1.5 cm

Length

192 

Keller documents a project by which he attempted to break clouds and expel rain in Morocco, similar to the means used by the Chinese government during the Beijing Olympics.

“the next day, friday, we had a big public operation planned in the village of tizfrit. hicham had spoken to the elders and they all agreed. so we placed the mobile cloudbuster unit on the village’s main square, a dirt platform next to the wadi, surrounded by a little shed with the sign “teleboutique”, another one with a coca-cola painting, the mosque and a private house. all the villagers came: the elder men, the young men, the women with the girls a bit further away and, of course, the kids. tea was brought and we started the operations with the cloudbuster.”