CRUDE was an exhibition exploring our complex relationship to crude oil through newly commissioned works from artists and writers; Ashanti Harris, Alison Scott, and Shane Strachan. The project situated oil as an agent of transformation and invited the commissioned practitioners to think through the implications of oil’s ability to dominate all political, social and economic life the world over.
Located in Aberdeen, the previously self-proclaimed ‘Oil Capital of Europe’, the exhibition aimed to take a critical lens to oil in local, national and international contexts. The works drilled down into aspects of oil narratives which are often projected as fluid and creating wealth for all. Instead they operated in the friction, making visible counter narratives and reflecting on the ways on which fossil fuels make identities.
For the duration of the exhibition selected texts and publications were available providing a further insight into the discourse of crude oil. Including locally produced publications of Aberdeen Peoples Press ‘Oil Over Troubled Water. A Report and Critique of Oil Developments in North East Scotland’ and selected editions of ‘BlowOut’ magazine a publication produced by and for oil workers in the North East.
The exhibition produced a publication designed by local design duo Haar(bour) [formally Haar Contemporary Art Journal] run by Phoebe McBride and Abby Beatrice Quick.
The project has been supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland’s Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development and Look Again. The project team would like to thank Aberdeen University Special Collections and the teams at RMT for their support in the archival reproductions and Ross Maclean from the Maritime Museum for an insightful digital tour of the oil and gas industry collection.
The public programme recordings and reflections are now available online. Including 'Decommissioning Fictions: After Oil Imaginaries' a talk by researcher Graeme MacDonald and 'Energy Politics and Just Transition' in collaboration with Creative Carbon Scotland as part of their Green Tease programme. The event brought together researcher Ewan Gibbs, climate and social justice organisations Platform and Friends of the Earth Scotland and Neil Rothnie. Neil is a former oil worker and climate justice campaigner. He is also the founder of Blow Out Magazine.
Exhibition dates: 27th August – 12th September 2021.
Look Again project space, 32 St Andrew St, Aberdeen AB25 1JA.
Located in Aberdeen, the previously self-proclaimed ‘Oil Capital of Europe’, the exhibition aimed to take a critical lens to oil in local, national and international contexts. The works drilled down into aspects of oil narratives which are often projected as fluid and creating wealth for all. Instead they operated in the friction, making visible counter narratives and reflecting on the ways on which fossil fuels make identities.
For the duration of the exhibition selected texts and publications were available providing a further insight into the discourse of crude oil. Including locally produced publications of Aberdeen Peoples Press ‘Oil Over Troubled Water. A Report and Critique of Oil Developments in North East Scotland’ and selected editions of ‘BlowOut’ magazine a publication produced by and for oil workers in the North East.
The exhibition produced a publication designed by local design duo Haar(bour) [formally Haar Contemporary Art Journal] run by Phoebe McBride and Abby Beatrice Quick.
The project has been supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland’s Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development and Look Again. The project team would like to thank Aberdeen University Special Collections and the teams at RMT for their support in the archival reproductions and Ross Maclean from the Maritime Museum for an insightful digital tour of the oil and gas industry collection.
The public programme recordings and reflections are now available online. Including 'Decommissioning Fictions: After Oil Imaginaries' a talk by researcher Graeme MacDonald and 'Energy Politics and Just Transition' in collaboration with Creative Carbon Scotland as part of their Green Tease programme. The event brought together researcher Ewan Gibbs, climate and social justice organisations Platform and Friends of the Earth Scotland and Neil Rothnie. Neil is a former oil worker and climate justice campaigner. He is also the founder of Blow Out Magazine.
Exhibition dates: 27th August – 12th September 2021.
Look Again project space, 32 St Andrew St, Aberdeen AB25 1JA.
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Related press for the exhibition:
Th exhibition was featured in the National's Sunday edition, as well as digital press including; Deadline
Grampian News Daily Advent Press and Journal Evening Express
Th exhibition was featured in the National's Sunday edition, as well as digital press including; Deadline
Grampian News Daily Advent Press and Journal Evening Express