Subarctic
This ongoing subarctic energy project is a survey of renewable and transitional energy infrastructures across the subarctic. The work examines how geothermal, hydro, wind, solar, and tidal, projects are situated within fragile environments and contested territories, attending both to the forms of infrastructure and to the traces they leave across land, ecologies, and human presence. Iceland: Geothermal power plants are embedded in volcanic rift zones, where drilling rigs, pipelines, and steam fields occupy lava plains shaped by deep geological time. Norway: Wind turbines and transmission lines rise across subarctic plateaus, cutting through reindeer grazing grounds and reshaping landscapes long used for herding.