Talk – Future Forest at Hooke Park, Architectural Association

I’m very much looking forward to talking at Hooke Park this Friday for the Future Forest. It’s a great array of speakers encompassing scientists, foresters, architects, curators and artists. Information on tickets (including travel to the Dorset location are available below).

FUTURE FOREST

7th Nov  | Hooke Park | 11.30 - 17.30 

Future Forest is a one-day multidisciplinary event set within the 140 hectare working woodland at Hooke Park, the Architectural Association’s rural campus in Dorset. Bringing together voices from forestry, ecology, art and architecture, the day explores how creative and scientific practices can co-evolve in the age of climate emergency. 

The morning grounds us in the technical and ecological — with talks from forestry and silviculture experts. This is centred around the future of forestry and the AA Wood Lab’s 100 Year Forest Project - a framework for the long-term management of the working forest at Hooke Park. In the afternoon, the conversation expands to explore how artistic and speculative practices can shape our understanding of environmental and ecological futures.

Tickets for the event are free, tickets including cooked lunch are £7

For anyone coming from London there’s also an option to book a free shuttle bus from Dorchester South and back.

More info here: 

www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogramme/whatson/future-forest

Direct link to book tickets here: 

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-forest-tickets-1794615135179?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

 

Film – Lost for Words at Sheffield Doc Fest

Lost for Words, a feature documentary directed by Hannah Papacek Harper will be shown at Sheffield International Documentary Festival this June. The film features the forest-based sound artwork Living Symphonies by Jones/Bulley.

More about Lost for Words here.

More about Living Symphonies here.

 

Exhibition – Lily Greenham at Kunsthalle Wien: 'Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991'

Lily Greenham’s computing works, first exhibited as part of the Badischer Kunstverein exhibition in Karlsruhe (March–May 2024) that I co-curated with Andrew Walsh-Lister, Anja Casser and Alex Balgiu, are now travelling to Vienna, where they will be exhibited in the excellent travelling show ‘Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991.’ The exhibition runs in Vienna from 2025-02-28 to 2025-05-25 and is well worth a visit.

More information about the exhibition and how to visit can be found here.

Event: Pontefract Giants – Pontefract Castle, Yorkshire, 25–26 September 2021

The weekend of the Autumn Equinox (25-26 September 2021) will see the opening of a forthcoming film-sound installation, Pontefract Giants, created with Matthew Rosier and Daisy Lafarge at Pontefract Castle, Pontefract, West Yorkshire:

Pontefract Giants will transform the castle into an immersive landscape where the ancestors of past residents of Pontefract will greet you and transport you on an expansive and poetic journey through time from the first inhabitants of the area some 300,000 years ago.

Featuring projections of current residents representing the towns ancestors, an immersive soundscape and musical score, this light and sound show will allow you to appreciate the site and history of our town like never before.

(Pontefract Castle website)

More information and tickets here.

Roger Ackling – 'Cloud Arc' (1979)

© Annely Juda Fine Art, London

In the 1980s Ackling produced a body of work that harnessed sunlight as his medium. Using a small glass lens the artist focussed the rays of the sun so that they burnt into wood, bone or card. Although he recognised the parallels between his work and that of the early photographers who used sun to develop images onto chemically treated papers, Ackling regarded his work as being in harmony with nature, and that followed in the American Indian tradition of using fire and smoke to carry messages across vast distances.

From the British Council Visual Arts Website here