ARCTIC CIRCLE RESIDENCY
(IN PROGRESS) The Arctic Circle Art & Science Expedition 2024: Artist-in-Residence, 2024
ABSTRACT
Throughout The Arctic Circle Art and Science Expedition, I will explore the concept of reflection through the tragic, ‘quintessentially modern’ figure of the Creature from Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” When I refer to reflection, I'm moving beyond the notion of a surface that restores, replicates, or reifies a likeness. Instead, I see it through the hopelessly distorted lens of what Marx described as the metabolic rift — the irreparable chasm between humans and nature under Capitalism. This project aims to trace geophysical upheavals — such as melting glaciers, land subsidence, structural conflagrations, rising temperatures, not simply as natural events, but as tangible expressions of critique. In this interpretation, socio-environmental collapse is understood as the planet casting a horrified glance back at its own human-engineered image.