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 4. QUARTER MOON - ENERGY AS RELATIONAL FIELD
Water / Infrastructure / Intersection
When: Monday 27 April, Outside at Vestpynten from 17:30 - 19:00
(more information about the location and where to meet will be shared before the event)
What to bring: Dress in warm clothing to be outside for 1.5 hours
To book email: workshops@articasvalbard.no (8 places available)
Description:
This final session explores the relational field as the shared terrain where fluid systems and human structures meet. Following melt and activation, water moves through fjords and ocean systems. These same waters support shipping routes, tourism vessels, and submarine fiber optic cables. Natural processes and human infrastructure intersect within the same environment.
Participants receive a recorded guided meditation and walk at their own pace along the shoreline. Water becomes a reflective surface through which to sense how material and immaterial systems overlap.
The session concludes by returning to the fire to convene and close the series. The relational field is approached as the space where awareness, structure, and fluid systems coexist.
Focus:
Meltwater and ocean currents moving through fjord systems
Shipping routes, tourism vessels, and submarine fiber optic cables crossing Arctic waters
Ocean processes intersecting with human-built infrastructure
Embodied Inquiry:
Where in the body does flow meet structure?
Where do internal pathways feel open, blocked, or redirected?
How does awareness reorganize alignment between body and environment?