Tim Collins & Reiko Goto
area: Art & Ecology
Key Facts
nationality
US/UK & Japanarea
Art & Ecologyresidence
Glasgowrecommending institution
MQtime period
May 2024 - June 2024Reiko Goto's research focuses on the relationships between humans, other living beings and our changing environment. Tim Collins is interested in the impact of climate and environmental change on critical thinking about the relationship between nature and culture.
Collins + Goto Studio is known for its long-term projects that engage in socially engaged environmental research and practice, with a particular focus on empathic relationships with more than human actors. Methods include reading and writing, sculpture and the use of a range of media and technologies. The studio produces artworks, sound works, videos, exhibitions and installations as well as seminars, workshops and publications. An art-based dialogue and a theoretical approach are essential components of the studio's approach to environmental art. The artists collaborate with a variety of professionals, including musicians, scientists, historians and philosophers, to create artworks that explore and reflect the current changes of our time.
During their residency at MQ, Tim Collins and Reiko Goto will work on two projects:
A weekly investigation exploring trees in Vienna using the HAKOTO body instruments and listening to the breath of the trees. This two-month work will result in a publication and an audio-video recording of tree studies, accompanied by an ongoing discourse on what it means to share a habitat with other living beings. It will explore how technology can enable empathic exchange even when verbal communication is not possible. Finally, it raises the question of what sound and rhythm life itself can have.
On 28.05.2024, Collins and Goto will present their long-term project HAKOTO | Speaking Leaves on the MQ Summer Stage.
The second project looks at the biodiversity of oak trees in the UK. The work aims to develop an artistic response to a recent study by Dr Ruth Mitchell of the James Hutton Institute in Scotland. This study quantified all 2,301 species of native oak woodland. For Tim Collins and Reiko Goto, the question is how this complex and fascinating collection of data or interrelationship can be represented through artistic methods characterised by new technologies and a process-oriented philosophy.