Out of Ice: The Secret Language of Ice
Out of Ice was Ogilvie’s immersive art piece, a site-specific work designed for the vast Ambika P3, a London gallery and former construction hall. Her work is deeply concerned with nature, global warming, the age of the Anthropocene and deep time, employing a fusion of art, architecture and science. This publication explores one of the most significant artists of her generation in Scotland: it includes essays focusing on a critical interrogation of Ogilvie’s work but also poetry, journal extracts and the artist’s own writing. A series of stunning images document Ogilvie’s field research and experimental work, the Out of Ice installation process, and the artist’s community engagement.
Publisher: Black Dog Press
ISBN: 9781911164234
Number of pages: 180
Dimensions: 275 x 275 mm
Authors + Contriburors
Joan Naviyuk Kane Inupiaq American poet, Alaska, US; Karo Thomson Fleischer/Ono Fleischer renowned Greenlandic Inuit explorers/academic, Ilulissat, Greenland; Robert MacFarlane prize-winning author/academic, Cambridge, UK; Professor Tim Ingold anthropologist and author, Social Anthopology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; Dr Astrid Ogilvie scientist, author, Senior Scientist, Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland; Dr Julie Decker Director, Anchorage Museum, Alaska, US; Andrew Patrizio author, Professor of Scottish Visual Culture, University of Edinburgh; Dr Jo Vergunst social anthropologist, author, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; Professor Katharine Heron MBE architect/Director, P3, London
Stockists
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
John Smith’s Bookshops, Glasgow
Stockist enquiries: rupert@blackdogonline.com
Background
“As an artist creating experiences rather than images and these exhibitions may last only two months, a record in the form of publication with images, film, sound work and textual accounts is integral and a crucial objective of all my major projects. Because of the scale and spatial and experiential nature of my work, these installations are dismantled after each exhibition but remain in people’s collective memory and continue in the future in documentary, published and in digital form.”
Following the years of research in Northern Greenland, knowledge growing out of experimentation in the studio and the major output in Ambika P3 London and Contemporary Art Space Osaka, the Out of Ice publication was the next essential step, providing a record of the project through others’ voices as well as the artist’s own, collectively forming a kind of choreographic practice, in ways that add meaningful value and visibility to the project as a whole.
Production
Ogilvie was delighted when in 2016, London based Black Dog Publishing (BDP) approached her with the offer to publish the book about the Out of Ice project and its background. The artist worked with long-term colleague, designer Tim Bremner. The 84 minute Out of Ice | Elizabeth Ogilvie film was created with filmmaker Rob Page.
