Collins & Goto Studio

Environmental Art, Deep Mapping & Ecological Instruments

Film & Video

Films by Tim Collins and Reiko Goto Collins, 2010–2024, grouped by project

HAKOTO / portach / bog: Reiko Goto Collins in conversation with Dave Spence about the intentions, process and methods behind the work, Leitrim, 2024 (4:52). Filmed and edited by Dave Spence.

Films30 on the studio’s Vimeo channel

Years2010–2024

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2022–

HAKOTO

A wearable instrument that turns the photosynthesis and transpiration of a living plant into sound. The sound in these films is generated live by the tree or the bog. About the project

HAKOTO Sphagnum: Reiko Goto Collins performing at Portach Leitir Fhuinseann / Letterunshin Bog, Co. Sligo, 8 April 2024 (12:05).
Artificial – Bog – Intelligence (2024, 16:26): the haiku-renga and animations made in dialogue with the Bog Whisperer, shown across four monitors in the Leitrim exhibition.
HAKOTO: Six Trees, Glasgow Women’s Library for Glasgow International, 2024 (20:42).
Twin beech trees, Stadtwald, Cologne, 5 May 2024: Tim on the shady side of one tree, Reiko on the sunlit side of the other (29:10).

More HAKOTO films

2019–20

Lough Boora

Deep mapping the cutaway peatlands of Lough Boora Sculpture Park in the Irish Midlands, for Offaly County Council. About the project

A dialogue about bogs, energy, art and landscape futures, from the studio’s 2020 “quarantine productions” (27:37).

2013–17

The Black Wood of Rannoch

Art with, rather than in, one of Scotland’s great Caledonian pinewoods. About the project

Decoy (2017, 15:40): two images shot at once, one moving forward into the forest in colour, one drawing back in black and white. Two-screen projection, with Martin Burns (narration), Geoff Sample (environmental sound) and Dave Russ (video installation).
The Forest is Moving / Tha a’ Choille a’ Gluasad (2013, 12:15), made for Perth Museum and Art Gallery: Gaelic place names, the forest’s history, and the idea that a forest can move again.

2010–13

Plein Air

A sculptural instrument on a painter’s easel that makes a tree leaf’s breathing audible. About the project

A Tree is a LIVING Thing (The Piper–Schelling Experiments) (2010, 13:00), developed in conversation with philosopher Pauline Phemister, with time-lapse animation by Adam Proctor. First shown in Plein Air: The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen.
PLEIN AIR with Chris Malcolm’s sound programme, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, 2013 (2:03).

2022

Other films

MEAKUSMA (2022, 3:14): Tim Collins, Reiko Goto Collins and Georg Dietzler with the Plein Air set-up, a four-day installation where visitors sat and listened to a tree leaf breathing.
Darkness – Kelpie (2022, 0:51): the Scottish water spirit that takes the form of a horse.
Darkness (2022, 0:22): Reiko Goto Collins and the senses of a wild herbivore.

Talks

Talks & conversations