The Landscape in Pain: Art for Shifting Relations with the Land. Professor Roxane Permar. UHI Shetland.
Roxane is a visual artist based in Shetland who practices in the field of socially engaged art. Most of her work is relational and collaborative, using creative engagement to address social issues across cultures, generations, and political boundaries. She initiated the MA programme in Art and Social Practice which began in September 2017.
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The environmental, social, cultural, and economic changes occurring in rural Scotland and across geographically remote communities in the northern and Arctic region are charged with far reaching geopolitical consequences as well as human and environmental impact that require multiple voices in dialogue. Roxannes research considers how art and social based practices can deal with issues that threaten society, particularly issues around climate change which involves the industrialisation of natural resources and new forms of colonisation.
The industrial scale extraction of natural resources for export and profit disrupts our relation to land and impacts cultural heritage and identity. The premise for much of my research is based on the belief that creativity is essential for sustainable development (D'Orville 2019), and that the arts can create impact, raise awareness, and achieve societal change by encouraging imaginative thinking around these complex issues. Roxanne uses drawing, film and photography to give form to the rape of the landscape, personal and collective grief, the expression of solastalgia (Albrecht 2005), and to make the invisible visible. The title of her ongoing research project Landscape in Pain points to the complexity of pain (Scarry, 1988) and the relationship between the human and non-human. This complexity is mirrored in the urgency of the climate crisis for which there is no straightforward solution.
Roxanne is involved with some fascinating collaborative research with partners across the North.
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