Pat Naldi is a visual artist living and working in London. Exploring the geopolitical, environmental, socio‐spatial, and ideological construction and operation of urban and rural land/sea/scapes she uses moving image, audio, live events, photography, writing, and broadcast technologies. These formats operate as tools of situated research.

On board Godzilla Pat will be creating a ship’s log that will culminate in an editioned artist publication. A ship’s log is not just a record but reflects a site of power in who gets to write the ‘official’ story at sea. The accountability, regulations, and legal implications at sea are particularly heightened when centred on the geopolitics of the Baltic Sea. Pat won’t just chart coordinates, but capture the shifting atmospheres, encounters, and narratives of the sea – a form of situated storytelling – in the liminal zone of the border space of the Baltic Sea between cultures, ecosystems, and languages.

“I don’t have a relationship yet with the Baltic Sea, but I have a lifelong affinity with the sea having been born in Gibraltar located at the gateway of the Mediterranean where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea in the Strait of Gibraltar. Both seas are shaped by the geopolitical dynamics of maritime spaces.”