The Rig, 2023
The Rig, 2023, 5:37 minutes, 4K CGI video (web version 1080p), courtesy the artist
I created The Rig during a residency with Shetland Arts as part of a British Council exchange focused on extraction economies. The work reconstructs an oil rig decommissioning site, where a massive steel jacket lay exposed alongside hundreds of thousands of pounds of dead marine life. Through an unconventional use of photogrammetry, I resurrected the decommissioned artifact. The Rig becomes a speculative sanctuary that shelters the life once destroyed. Drawing on hauntology and ruin ecology, the work examines how infrastructures of extraction persist as spectral presences.
The work was presented in a solo exhibition at Shetland Arts in Lerwick, Scotland. To hear more about the residency and research behind the project, listen to an interview on the Coastal Knowledge Podcast hosted by Chris Bonfiglioli of the Young Academy of Scotland.
More information can be found at X-CHANGE: Artist Residency & Exchange through Shetland Arts.
The work was presented in a solo exhibition at Shetland Arts in Lerwick, Scotland. To hear more about the residency and research behind the project, listen to an interview on the Coastal Knowledge Podcast hosted by Chris Bonfiglioli of the Young Academy of Scotland.
More information can be found at X-CHANGE: Artist Residency & Exchange through Shetland Arts.