Paper short abstract:

Out of Ice is an enquiry into ways of reading and understanding ice and its place in the living whole. Ogilvie probes the fertile territory between nature/technology/culture to explore our contemporary relationship with the environment, while seeking the inspiring vision of Tim Ingold and other critical thinkers. While studying details of water/ice in the environment, Ogilvie gradually builds up an intimacy with their character. It’s this intimacy of seeing that she aims to share with her audience. In this presentation Ogilvie seeks to illustrate that her empiricism can be experienced, understood and applied, in both artistic and scientific terms; that she can, working alongside those in other disciplines, develop a language with her physical materials, water/ice where the rational contends on equal terms with the intuitive, and as such, begins to make a contribution to our insight into our relationship with our environment.