MANIFESTO

Lìthseag is an artist collective based out of Scotland. Its members, refusing to pinpoint a specific location of Scotland they hail from, instead choose to represent Scotland as an intangible idea. Lìthseag is a Scots Gaelic word with multiple meanings. This fluidity of definition is at the heart of Lìthseag’s practice. Unlike other practitioners who try to define and showcase identity Lìthseag aims to expose the alienation of identity in their artistic practice. The core of their work is to show that the chaotic search for identity usually comes up fruitless. To identify oneself in a digital world means staying abreast of rapidly changing technologies which exhausts the individual instilling a form of mania within the searcher. Lìthseag argues that humanity’s search for identity results in an oily-film that clouds the eyes of the world. Through immersive and interactive arts practice utilising the moving image, sculpture and live performance, Lìthseag aims to capture various aspects of life influenced from this self-inflected cataract of individuality.

- Lìthseag
2025