Landscape in Pain / Living in the Landscape

Description

Presentation that introduces my intersecting identities as artist and academic and my desire for the collective voice of my peers, my students’ and project participants to influence policy in relation to the climate emergency. How can we achieve sustainability in our lives, leverage renewable energies, without causing harm?

While Landscape in Pain began is my response to the construction of the industrial scale Wind Farm on Shetland’s Mainland, it has expanded significantly due to a combination of factors.
• My ongoing learning and increased knowledge and awareness of the complexity of the
issues has encouraged me to pursue new approaches.
• Public responses to the work as well as the constantly changing landscape of proposals for
renewable energies and implementation of a just transition in Shetland, and further afield,
have pushed me to seek ways to widen the audience for discussion, to bring people
together, particularly in Shetland.

I would like to see three groups of people included around the table to formulate policy in relation to the climate crisis.

• We need social art and social art practitioners who embrace the many contexts in which we live, where artists engender active engagement with the world. 

• We need to listen to people with indigenous knowledge, to seek to rekindle the notion of reciprocity in relation to our world, the human and non-human world, to respect indigenous knowledge, particularly that on our doorstep in Scotland, such as I know we have in Shetland.

• We must assertively foster diverse ways of being in the world, we must include young people, so called vulnerable people, and women, let’s revisit matriarchal wisdom as we used to have in Shetland.

Period	26 Oct 2023
Event title	Scottish Cultural Policy Research Network : The Cultural Sector and the Climate Emergency
Event type	Workshop
Location	Aberdeen, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National