Srinivas Mangipudi, Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, Curatorial assistance, Diya Shah. Climate Recipes. 2023-present. Book, installations. Size variable.

Climate Recipes is an ongoing collation of interviews with farmers, scientists, artists and activists made into illustrated books and exhibitions with bite-sized (300 words or less) recipes for combatting and acclimating to climate change in the anthropocene. A first edition in Goa is followed by research in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and beyond. Contextualizing climate apathy as a failure of the imagination to scale up to what author Timothy Morton refers to as hyperobjects, Climate Recipes uses the familiar structure of a recipe, inherently replicable through reenactment (think Fluxus performance score), as an entrypoint for actionable change. Srinivas Mangipudi’s monochromatic contour drawings provide an alternative methodology for transcribing and processing the team’s longerform interviews. To that end, they also serve as a main source of inspiration for the Soft Data/Base’s drawing-centric ingestion of information.