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5 • 5 • 2024 Statdwald Park Cologne

This is a terrific video of the fourth day of HAKOTO performances as part of the CCKPT exhibition and performances curated by Georg Deitzler in Düsseldorf and Köln, Germany. Here we have twin beach trees. Tim has attached to the shady side of one, Reiko is on the sunlit side of the other. The sound is generated by the leaves. It is generative and dynamic with clouds overhead driving photosynthesis and transpiration.

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/945562434

HAKOTO is a body-instrument comprised of a complex sensor array and a standard plant physiology logarithm which reveals a generative | dynamic sound response to localized atmospheric changes. Rooted in the current climate crisis the work reveals potential commonalities across human and more-than-human entities that share a common atmosphere and planetary condition. It has enabled us to reconsider ideas and perceptions about our inter relationship with trees. There is a shift in the value placed on trees through sound. The basis of this symbolic exchange is photosynthesis and transpiration.          Collins + Goto studio (2024)

18 April – 8 May, Exhibitions and performances at the Ccckpit festival in Düsseldorf and Köln,  https://www.gerngesehen.de/cckpt/
May 1, 3, 4 and 5, Performance with Reiko, Tim and Chris Malcolm! 
Film – HAKOTO LIVE in Düsseldorf
This is a 20 minute performance of HAKOTO with a Hawthorn tree. It was shot indoors in our studio, filmed by Lou McLoughlan. The video premiered April 18-28 at the 2024 Ccckpit festival in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was curated by Georg Dietzler.  https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/938353766

5 May – 25 Jun, Artist In Residence at Museum Quarter Vienna.  Art and Ecology Studio. https://www.mqw.at/en/program/tim-collins-reiko-goto-hakoto-speaking-leaf

28 May, Performance and discussion at MQ for the Klima Biennale Wein.

1 June – 31 Aug, Glasgow Women’s Library and GI, Reiko and Yoko Ono. Reiko presents: Hakoto performances, a small forest garden installation and an ecofeminist reading corner at the Glasgow Women’s library.

 https://glasgowinternational.org/programme/projects/peace-arbour/
7 June and 22 June – Performance with HAKOTO, by Reiko.

2024 Landscape, Ecology and Environment Research Fellows 
at Leitrim Art Centre,  Manorhamilton Ireland.

https://www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie/whats-on/artist-in-residence/leer

15 July to 15 August LEER resident’s exhibition – Bogland efforts building on the Deep Mapping Lough Boora book, and various efforts in the NW of Ireland. Exhibiting with Marielle McLeman, Noah Rose and Vanya Lambrecht Ward. 

Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton. Below a sample from the installation. 
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/938496258

  • S.Bergmann Workshop – Human Encounters with the World

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    Workshop – Spring 2014, Sweden or Germany. Organized by Sigurd Bergmann, prof. dr. theol. Department of Archaeology and Religious Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim. Six to eight philosophers, biologists, geographers, and theologians, will gather to discuss the human encounter with the world.  Exploring the creation of artifacts and works of meaning that…

  • S.Read Seminar – Activating the gap between knowledge and imagination.

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    Seminar – 2013 April 23-25 Activating the gap between knowledge and imagination. Organized by Simon Read, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Middlesex University, Sue Tapsell Principal Lecturer and Head of the Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University and Professor Chris Wainwright of Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, London. The event is…

  • Spirit in the Air, CO2 Edinburgh

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    Exhibition and Performance – 2013 Aug 1-23 Spirit in the Air, CO2 Edinburgh Collins & Goto with ASN Collaborators For the Edinburgh Festival The Tent Gallery, in Art Space and Nature, with Creative Carbon Scotland. Spirit in the Air: CO2 Edinburgh is a development of the Eden3 project; an art-based climate initiative developing critical methods…

  • Trees are the Language of Landscape

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    Lecture/Discussion -2013 May 16 Trees are the Language of Landscape The Tent Gallery, in Art Space and Nature Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House With Reiko in Japan for a family matter Collins spoke about the evolution of the work in an illustrated talk that closed with two videos with Goto speaking about empathy and…