Collins & Goto Studio

HAKOTO – Oak + Willow

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2023 May 28 – clips from HAKOTO Performance with a beech, an oak and a willow tree at KNOCKvologan, Fionnphort, Isle of Mull, Scotland.

Reiko Goto listens to an oak tree with HAKOTO. Sensors read photosynthesis and transpiration in one leaf. This is the first public test of one HAKOTO.
Reiko Goto listens to a willow tree with HAKOTO.

Sunday May 28th, clips from the performance during our residency, with one (of two) HAKOTO and various trees in the Oak/Hazel Forest of Knockvologan. It was followed by a dialogue about what it means to share soil, water and air with trees and other living things. We touched on ideas such as empathic exchange with more than human others and the use of technology to see and hear things that are invisible and silent to ‘our’ ears and eyes. The conversation was thoughtful, productively critical of this first trial of an experimental project. There is an incredible depth to the arts and environmental culture on Mull.

The people present at the HAKOTO performance were:
Nina Pope – visual arts curator at AnTobar Rhona Dougall – visual arts curator at AnTobar, William Arnold, photographer, Jan Troller – young regenerative farmer, spiritual and artistic mind, Hannah Fisher & Sorren Maclean – Folk musicians, Seth Crook – poet, philosospher, transforming into a seal

Miek Zwamborn & Rutger Emmelkamp – artists and principals at Knockvologan.

A Collins + Goto Studio Project, Reiko Goto and Tim Collins With: Chris Malcolm, Composition and Programming Jim Watt, Technical Artist and Hardware specialist Blair Thompson, Hardware Designer and Programmer