Proyecto
About the Project
Climate Memories / Memorias del Clima is a collaborative transnational sound, radio, and research project by Linda O’Keeffe and Leena Lee. Working with artists, researchers, community organisations, scientists, radio producers, and members of the public, the project explores how environmental change is experienced, remembered, and transmitted through everyday life.
The project gathers personal memories of changing seasons, altered weather patterns, disappearing species, transformed landscapes, food traditions, environmental events, and shifting relationships with place. Rather than asking participants to speak directly about climate change, Climate Memories invites people to share lived experiences of environmental transformation as they have encountered it through their bodies, senses, families, communities, and daily routines.
These memories reveal forms of ecological knowledge that often remain absent from scientific datasets and policy discussions. Through storytelling, listening, and sound, the project documents how environmental change is registered through atmosphere, sensation, emotion, labour, culture, and intergenerational memory.
Climate Memories unfolds through radio broadcasts, workshops, listening events, public archive activations, field recording, artistic research, and open calls for participation. Together, these contributions form a growing international archive of lived climate experience, connecting individual memories to larger ecological transformations occurring across the world.
Working across languages, cultures, and geographical regions, the project brings together artists, researchers, community organisations, educators, environmental practitioners, and members of the public to create new ways of listening to environmental change.
Artistas
About the Artists
Linda O’Keeffe
Linda O’Keeffe is an artist, researcher, educator, and acoustic ecologist whose work explores listening as a method for understanding relationships between people, place, memory, and environmental change. Working across sound art, participatory practice, installation, radio, and interdisciplinary research, she develops projects that investigate embodied forms of ecological knowledge and the role of listening in responding to environmental transformation. Her work has been presented internationally through exhibitions, public programmes, radio broadcasts, and collaborative research initiatives. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art at Stony Brook University, New York.
Leena Lee
Leena Lee (Lena Ortega Atristain) is an artist and researcher whose work explores corporeal attunement to the environment through affective listening. Working across sound art, fieldwork, installation, and radio, she develops projects that investigate relationships between human and more-than-human entities, bridging art, philosophy of nature, and the life sciences. Her work has been presented internationally through festivals, exhibitions, broadcasts, and collaborative research initiatives, and recognized as Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp and reviewed in The Wire and A Closer Listen. She is a founding member of Arte+Ciencia at UNAM, where she is currently pursuing postdoctoral research in natural philosophy on gardening as an ecology of care.
Broadcast
Radio
Climate Memories is a monthly radio programme created by Linda O’Keeffe and Leena Lee in collaboration with Wave Farm and broadcast on WGXC 90.7 FM, New York.
Each programme brings together climate memories contributed by participants from around the world with field recordings, environmental sound, conversation, and listening practices that explore how environmental change is experienced through everyday life. The broadcasts serve as both a public listening space and an evolving archive, connecting diverse voices, places, and experiences through sound.
Broadcasts
Auditions: Climate Memories
Broadcast: 27 May 2026
The first broadcast introduced the Climate Memories project through a selection of contributed memories and environmental recordings, exploring how personal experiences of changing seasons, landscapes, weather, and species can form a collective archive of environmental change.
Listen Here to our recent show
Next Broadcast
Late June 2026
The next programme will feature new climate memories collected from participants across different regions and languages, alongside recordings gathered through ongoing workshops, public events, and research activities.
WGXC 90.7 FM broadcasts throughout New York’s Upper Hudson Valley and can be streamed worldwide through Wave Farm.
Research
Current Research
Climate Memories in Mexico
Climate Memories / Memorias del Clima will be presented in Mexico from June 22 to July 4, 2026 through a series of public events, broadcasts, workshops, performances, and research activities developed in collaboration with Arte+Ciencia at UNAM, Radio Nopal, the Ecocriticism Seminar at the Institute for Philological Research, and a network of artists, researchers, scientists, and environmental practitioners.
A central component of this programme is the international symposium Climate Memories / Memorias del Clima, which brings together participants from across the arts, humanities, sciences, and environmental research to explore how environmental change is remembered, embodied, narrated, and archived.
Alongside the symposium, the project will activate the Living Climate Archive, an open public recording platform where visitors can contribute their own climate memories; present new radio works and live broadcasts; facilitate workshops exploring climate memory as a sensory and embodied form of ecological knowledge; and develop collaborative research through listening, field recording, and dialogue.
The Mexico programme forms part of the ongoing development of Climate Memories as an international collaborative project that connects personal experience, artistic practice, public participation, and ecological research.
