THE LOOKING NORTH BLOG
14 November, 2023
In collaboration with the Centre for Energy Ethics
When we speak of energy, context determines meaning. I have learned that over the course of the past year. Together with my friends and colleagues Tori Champion and Emma Dodds, I started working on Looking North back in Spring 2022 – a project that would bring together a selection of four artists and four nature writers from Scotland to reflect on the concepts of landscape, nature, Northernness and energy. The list of speakers for the first two parts included included Alex Boyd & Cal Flyn, Mhairi Killin & Alastair McIntosh, Sophie Gerrard & Amanda Thomson and Sekai Machache & Christopher Marshall.
Looking North through Art
Alternative Approaches to Landscape and Energy Ethics in Scotland
4 November, 2023
In collaboration with Scotland’s Future Series
In Scotland, the relevance of themes relating to landscape and energy (ethics) is difficult to overstate. Be it debates on the economy, job prospects and security, Scottish independence, climate change and other ecological crises, or national identity – landscape and energy occur frequently in mainstream discourses. Generally, approaches to those terms tend to focus on what landscape and energy are to “us”, in other words, how “we” can use them – often with the intention of generating, if not maximising economic profit.