This four-part series explores the energetic landscape of the body and its ecological intertwining with the Arctic environment. Hosted by artist in residence, Ashley Middleton.
Across four lunar phases, the workshops trace a progression from stored earth material, to its conversion into infrastructure, to the environmental responses that follow, and finally to the shared terrain where natural processes and human systems intersect. Each session combines guided meditation, intuitive sound bath, and communal reflection. Drawing from scientific research in Svalbard alongside embodied sensing, the series invites participants to awaken bodily awareness within the systems they inhabit, allowing innate knowledge to surface and movement to begin.
Workshop 2. QUARTER MOON - ENERGY AS LIGHT
Solar Radiation / Circadian Rhythm / Technological Capture
When: Wednesday 8 April at Artica Svalbard from 17:30 - 19:00
What to bring: yoga/sleeping mat, blanket and notebook (pens and paper will also be provided)
To book email: workshops@articasvalbard.no (8 places available)
Description:
This session explores light as energy from the Sun and how it moves across planetary, biological, and technological systems. Participants begin by sensing how light shapes perception, alertness, and daily rhythm within Arctic seasonal shifts.
Solar radiation powers life through photosynthesis and can be captured and converted into electricity. Light becomes stored in plant matter, transformed into fossil fuel, transmitted as electrical current, and organised as signal within global infrastructures that support communication and modelling systems.
Light is also engaged as an inner practice. Participants experience attention as a form of directed light, becoming aware of how orientation is shaped both externally and internally.
The session closes with reflection on how light is received, converted, transmitted, and directed across scales.
Focus:
Sunlight as planetary energy source
Light converted into electricity and signal within technological systems
Light as an instrument of inner orientation and awareness
Embodied Inquiry:
How does natural and artificial light affect the body’s rhythm and alertness?
How does attention concentrate or diffuse like a beam?
What shifts when light is directed inward through visualisation?