The New Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm Information Centre is a research-led visual arts exhibition that looks at the relationship between offshore wind energy and Doggerland, the submerged landmass that used to connect the UK to mainland Europe. The exhibition uses the meeting of wind turbine and seabed as a narrative starting point, presenting a mix of collected and adapted material from marine archaeological research and wind energy construction. Merging fiction and non-fiction, the ‘new information centre’ reflects on the artists perception of oceanic relationships that occur across time and the non-linear poetics of the sea.
About the artists
Arieh Frosh and Ed Compson are independent artists who work collaboratively on socially engaged, technologically-driven projects. Since 2020, their ongoing series of artworks, workshops, and research experiments have involved technologies that might only become visual through translation, from seabed scanning, to electromagnetic listening, to recording wind speed. They do this to engage with a world that operates — and is made operational — through non-visual means, with visual and material effects. This approach, combined with a critical employment of fiction and an experimental use of tools, allows for a questioning of how machine and ecological thinking operate, interpellate us, and affect imagination. Their collaboration occurs at aphotic depths: aphoticdepths.xyz
About the East Gallery Fellowship Programme
Launched in 2023, the East Gallery Fellowships (Creative Practice) provide a significant opportunity for creative exchange and experimentation embedded in the pioneering research culture of Norwich University of the Arts. Appointed through an annual open call, the Fellowships provide pastoral and curatorial support, a generous grant, production expenses, and valuable access to the University’s state of the art facilities. The Fellowships are non-prescriptive and focus on supporting creative practitioners to research and develop an innovative practice-based project that will result in a high-quality exhibition at East Gallery. East Gallery will open applications for new Fellows in spring 2025.
The New Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm Information Centre runs from 14 March – 7 June 2025 with a short break over Easter.
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