Tim Collins
Born and raised in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
Currently resides in Glasgow Scotland
With Roots in San Francisco California
Tim is an artist and planner interested in the changing ideas about environment and society. Working with other disciplines and across science, philosophy and art he has developed a set of methods that address environmental change through concept, perception, experience and value. The artwork explores how imagination contributes to practical wisdom and democratic discourse about ethics and human values. The work has focused upon post-industrial and natural public places and everyday experience of environmental commons.
On-going development:
Eden3.net an interdisciplinary artist-led climate change research initiative that results in sculptural/performative materials that embrace philosophical ideas and scientific technology to reveal the hidden, silent and invisible conditions of a tree in relationship to carbon dioxide.
A new development:
The Caledonian project interrogates the cultural issues of forests today and imagines relationships to the cultural condition and experience of Caledonia tomorrow. Asking if these trees contribute in any way to the agency that is in the air as Scotland redefines itself?
Currently working:
a proposal for a monograph dealing with the questions of research in the field of art and environmental change.
New writing from Eden3: Art and Living Things, The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse has been published in Human-Environment Relations: Transforming Values in Theory and Practice, Edited by Emily Brady and Paulne Phemister.
New writing on 3 Rivers 2nd Nature has been published in a special issues on Landscape, Cultural Spaces and Ecology, edited by RACAR: The Canadian Art Review, it is complimented by an article on Nine Mile Run by Lora Senechal Carney. Edited by Carnet and Edith-Anne Pageot.
Reiko Goto
Born and raised in Tokyo Japan
Doctoral Researcher, Grays School of Art
Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen, Scotland
After ten years as a researcher at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Reiko began working with Dr. Anne Douglas on a PhD at ‘On the Edge’, Grays School of Art. She is currently examining the inter-relationships between people and trees. She has begun a series of interviews with Helen and Newton Harrison concerning the Serpentine Lattice, and is immersed in Joseph Beuy’s 7000 Oaks project. Reiko published an article on artist leadership titled “The Journey” for a-n magazine, March 2007.
Tim and Reiko
Tim Collins and Reiko Goto have recently initiated a new body of work that returns to a purer form of poiesis while retaining the dialogic and transformative intent of work from the past ten years. The first project under development in this new series is A Biogenic Interface: the Secret Life of Trees. This is a research, exhibition and performance program whereby artists and musicians work with technologists and scientists to reveal the biogenic interaction of trees with the changing atmospheric chemistry and climate of cities. They are also working on a paper titled Eden3- the ethical aesthetic impulse for a book on Embodied Values edited by Emily Brady and Pauline Pheminster.
Tim and Reiko were researchers in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University from 1997-2005. Working with an interdisciplinary collaborative team, they directed 3 Rivers 2nd Nature; a five year project with artists, scientists, designers and students working together on issues of public space and ecology along the post-industrial waterfronts of Allegheny County, PA. In fall 2005, they organized and initiated a series of public programs called the Monongahela Conferences and an exhibition titled: Groundworks, curated by Grant Kester of UC San Diego. The exhibition examined international approaches to art, ecology and planning. Prior to that, Collins and Goto co-directed the Nine Mile Run project. They lived in San Francisco California from 1982-1993, where they exhibited at Capp Street Project, Intersection for the Arts and Southern Exposure, amongst others. They first began to share a studio in 1985. They initiated their first collaborative project in 1987.
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