Archives: Projects
The Knotweed Project
Reiko Goto, Christine Brill and Noel Hefele installation at the skinnybuilding and a series of mini events, Pittsburgh, PA The Knotweed Project sought to raise awareness and provoke dialogue about Japanese Knotweed and its impact on the region.
Breath Between Shadow and Light
Collins and Goto Geumgang Biennale, South Korea, Curator Anke Mellin Asked us to develop and deliver a work for a forest in the hills of South Korea, Goto engaged Dr John Rawlins, entomologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The work in the forest consisted of hundreds of small flags suspended from over 100…
Nine Mile Run
Bingham, Collins and Goto with John Stephen Ecovention, a group Exhibition at The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Buy the catalogue on Amazon
Poison ivy / Toxicodendron
Reiko Goto I have been thinking that my relationship to nature is too easy, too casual. I have, there fore, decided to befriend a very special plant. Toxicodendron, the plant is better known as poison ivy. Despite its reputation, poison ivy provides shelter and food to insects, birds, and mammals. I am intrigued by the…
Ivory-billed woodpecker Picus principals
Reiko Goto Ink on paper 48″ x 20″ Ivory-billed woodpecker, Picus principals currently has a possibly extinct status. It is about 20 inches long, and one of the largest woodpeckers in the world. The bird historically inhabited the ancient forests and swamps of Cuba and southern part of the United States: eastern Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas,…
Nine Mile Run: Conversations in the Rust Belt
Collins and Goto et al Regina Miller Gallery The Nine Mile Run Greenway Project brought together engineers, scientists, historians and others to create a civic dialogue about public space in the context of an urban brownfield. The team conducted ecological studies and created diverse alternative art works, such as a construction trailer as a site…
Carnegie3
Collins and Lightfoot A consideration of Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie the Sculpture and the verbal and material by-products of said work which exist in the world as a substantial but ghostly presence. We ask the viewer to consider the idea that steel production is itself a material theme; a narrative of extraction, production and by-product, which…
Bull-thistle / Cirsium vulgare
Reiko Goto A group exhibition “regional forecast,” Brew House SPACE 101, Pittsburgh, PA
The Kelvinator Pact
Erased (no reason for conflict) world map. Part of the installation: The Kelvinator Pact, created for ‘Latent August the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA (1995).