Elizabeth Ogilvie is an environmental artist working with a fusion of art/science, producing poetic experiential installations using water and video as her main media and research focus. Robert Page is an artist-filmmaker whose work blurs the boundaries between documentary filmmaking and fine art, often exploring human activity, both positive and negative, in and on the environment.

At a fundamental level, marine life helps determine the very nature of our planet, with every second breath we take generated by the ocean. Kelp forests, seagrass meadows and saltmarshes, amongst other ocean environments – our so-called blue carbon habitats – represent significant opportunities to offer a nature-based solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change, whilst providing invaluable havens for marine life.

CONVERSATION WITH OUR OCEAN, a visceral meditation on such ecosystems recorded in Atlantic and north-sea waters, celebrates some of our greatest weapons to combat the climate crisis by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and proposes the vision of a dynamic collaboration for us all with the ocean – our revered partner.

Working between creative documentary and the imaginary, the artists create films and immersive installations that explore deep time and invisible systems. In the cavernous interior of the Dissection Room at Summerhall inspired by the work of world leading marine scientists and colleagues, Ogilvie & Page will transform the space with an ambitious immersive installation, comprising semi-abstract video projections, digital prints and text works.