Ocean ARTic
A new partnership that aims to bring creatives and marine climate scientists together to explore the impact of climate change in the Arctic and Scotland through climate data
This new partnership, funded by Creative Scotland and led by MASTS, has been established in a pivotal year for climate change negotiations at CoP26, and the start of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030).
The Ocean ARTic project will run until March 2022, with the following key components:
- 1st April 2021: An online workshop to provide a platform for creatives and marine climate scientists to discuss their work.
- May and June 2021: Residencies for two creatives, to be paired with scientists to explore data and science, co-creating an approach to a response or expression of stories of climate change in the marine environment. Ideally, we are seeking a mix of visual and sound art.
- July and August 2021: Commissioning of works, ideally flowing from the residencies.
- September 2021 to March 2022: Exhibiting and public sharing of the works and the creative process, at venues and online before and during CoP26.
- March 2022: A legacy workshop to consider the formation of a long-term network of collaborators across the marine science and creative communities of Scotland.
OceanARTic will bring artists and marine scientists together to look in depth at how climate change is affecting the Arctic and, in turn, Scotland.
UPDATE 1st April 2021
Following this workshop, we are delighted to now announce the launch of the Residency with details of the Commissions, which will follow on from the Residency!
We are inviting applications from creative practitioners to be paired with a marine scientists and work collaboratively to develop a proposal for a creative response to the marine science data. For full Guidelines please click here and for the online application, please click here.
There is an artist fee payable to each artist of £3,000 to take part in the Residency. The budget for commissions, subject to approval, is £9000 across the two commissions/artists (including materials). There is a separate budget to accommodate travel and subsistence during the residency and exhibition phase of the project. We also have some separate budget for transport cost of any works to the exhibition venues if required and for the documentation of the creative process and exhibiting, in collaboration with the artists.
We are developing an ambitious programme of exhibition and online public sharing opportunities for the resulting works, for impact before, during and after the United Nations CoP26 climate negotiations to be held in Glasgow in November.
The application form should be completed online by 5pm (GMT) on the 28th April 2021. Any interviews will be held by video call on Friday 7th May. Successful artists will need to be available to start the residency by week commencing 17th May.
The Team
Chris Leakey, People Ocean Planet coordinator, MASTS, said: “MASTS is delighted to set this in motion as part of our People Ocean Planet initiative for greater impact from marine science. Ocean ARTic will not only result in exciting works for public impact in this most critical year for tackling climate change, but will also pave the way for further collaborations between Scotland’s creative and marine science communities. Other key partners include Blue Action, an international climate research project, and Creative Informatics for inspiring and enabling data-led, innovative and digital creativity.”
MASTS Members: Chris Leakey and Hannah Ladd-Jones
Project partners: Blue Action EU project, People Ocean Planet, Creative Informatics.
Steering Groups partners: Marine Scotland and EcoArtScotland
