Circulating Energies is a cross-border educational initiative that brings together participants from École Supérieure d’Art in Dunkirk and Open School East in Margate to consider the relationship between energy production, ecology and contemporary art, by examining their shared politics, forms and futures.
Geographically separated by only 80 kilometres of water, Dunkirk and Margate are enmeshed within a web of shared industrial and ecological relations; these extend beyond their immediate localities, with globally distributed implications and effects that unevenly impact people, places and the natural world.
Over a three-month period, artist Hugh Nicholson will lead an integrated programme of mentoring, reading-groups and seminars to consider how contemporary art might respond to these conditions, considering artworks’ limits and possibilities. These collective activities will culminate in a collaborative project at the FRAC Grand Large, Dunkirk in January 2024.
Circulating Energies is only made possible with the kind support of the Straits Committee and the FRAC Grand Large.
Geographically separated by only 80 kilometres of water, Dunkirk and Margate are enmeshed within a web of shared industrial and ecological relations; these extend beyond their immediate localities, with globally distributed implications and effects that unevenly impact people, places and the natural world.
Over a three-month period, artist Hugh Nicholson will lead an integrated programme of mentoring, reading-groups and seminars to consider how contemporary art might respond to these conditions, considering artworks’ limits and possibilities. These collective activities will culminate in a collaborative project at the FRAC Grand Large, Dunkirk in January 2024.
Circulating Energies is only made possible with the kind support of the Straits Committee and the FRAC Grand Large.