- Venue
- East Gallery
- Starts
- Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Ends
- Saturday, June 7, 2025
- Address
- East Gallery Cavendish House St Andrews Street Norwich NR2 4AE
- Location
- East England
- Organiser
- East Gallery, Norwich
The New Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm Information Centre is an exhibition by Arieh Frosh and Ed Compson that looks at the relationship between offshore wind energy and Doggerland, the submerged landmass that used to connect the UK to mainland Europe.
Fully submerged around 8000 years ago, Doggerland was a place of human inhabitation and settlement. It is an area now understood through proxies: through seabed scanning and filming, sediment sampling, the finding or trawling of artefact. Offshore wind turbines are literally embedded in the same Doggerland earth – massive swathes of data arrive from scans taken for undersea cable routes that transfer energy from offshore wind farms in the middle of the North Sea to the shore.
Presenting a mix of collected and adapted material from marine archaeological research and wind energy construction, The New Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm Information Centre positions the North Sea as a discursive site, informed by a looping, cyclical time; a nonlinear 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
The exhibition follows a year long East Gallery Fellowship at Norwich University of the Arts.
Visit
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As always, East Gallery is free to attend and welcomes everyone.
