Patrick O'Shea

Ethnography · Documentation

COP26: Into the Oceanic

Ethnographic monitoring and documentation of a week of large-scale projections, installations and workshops on ocean health at COP26.

Year
2021
Role
Monitor and ethnographer
With
Elizabeth Ogilvie and Robert Page; Glasgow School of Art
Medium
Public projections, installations and workshops at COP26, Glasgow
Links
Into the Oceanic projected in Glasgow during COP26.
Into the Oceanic projected in Glasgow during COP26.

Invited by the artists Elizabeth Ogilvie and Robert Page, I served as monitor and ethnographer for Into the Oceanic during its unveiling at COP26, organized with the Glasgow School of Art. The project merges art, science and activism to put the oceans' role in sustaining life at the centre of the climate summit, through immersive installations, projections and workshops.

My role was to document its week-long run and the public conversation it opened around marine health, and to lead an ethnography workshop alongside it.

Projection on the SEC Armadillo across the River Clyde.
Projection on the SEC Armadillo across the River Clyde.