OilScapes Workshop

This workshop is part of an international exhibition on OilScapes, which is on show at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen from September – October 2012. The workshop brings together two of the artists whose work can be seen in the exhibition - Zeigam Azizov and Aga Ousseinov - with academics from a range of disciplines, including Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Film & Visual Culture, Geography, History, Sociology and Theology. Discussion will centre on connections between connections among oil, geopolitics and visual culture with particular emphasis on mobility and the environment.

This workshop has three key aims: • to assess the contribution that the concept of the ‘oilscape’ might make to existing debates on cultural ecology, petro-culture, energy cities and city-regions, and the energy humanities, focusing on the interrelations and disjunctions between environment and mobility; • to consider how productive the concept of the ‘oilscape’ might be in understanding the role of the oil industry in motivating and facilitating the cross-circulation of cultures in the contemporary world; • to investigate the ways in which the concept of the ‘oilscape’ might offer a lens through which to understand the role of visual culture in mapping and constructing (and re-mapping and re-constructing) the ‘imagined worlds’ of the ‘hydrocarbon age’.

Register by emailing Tracey Connon: t.connon@abdn.ac.uk

More information at http://www.peacockvisualarts.com/events/382/oilscapes-workshop

Venue

Seminar Room, Floor 7, Sir Duncan Rice Library

Contact

j.stewart@abdn.ac.uk