Project description
Extense is a collaborative project between Glasgow-based artists and researchers Clara Hancock and Dianne Burdon. Working across the mediums of text, sound, and images (moving or otherwise), this project is an open-ended exploration into bodily and infrastructural transformations.What we are interested in
Our interest lies in how technologies, as sensuous extensions of the body, impact our interactions with infrastructures. Throughout this research we will be using atypical cartographic tools to explore the futures being mapped through historical and contemporary sites of development, with a particular focus on the epistemic constraints of energy imaginaries. We will primarily be using a consumer camera drone and a field recorder to explore field sites tied to oil, nuclear, and renewable energy production with a particular focus on the Firth of Clyde coastline. Between the defunct Shell bitumen refinery and the decommissioning Hunterston nuclear sites, infrastructural associations will be drawn to explore the processes of worldmaking that have been, and are currently being, enacted. This research sits within the discipline of infrastructural studies but also links in with heritage studies, ecological investigations, and affect theory.