Taming the Forest at RETHINKABLE festival [14/10-16/10 & 20/10-22/10 2022]
After its premiere at the 2022 Speculum Artium festival on the 23rd September 2022 with an experimental biosonification performance-process, Symphotree...
...the research-artistic video Taming the Forest will also be presented within the exhibition "COMPOSING LOCAL ECOLOGIES", introduced by pETER Purg at 20:00 hrs on the 14/10, at the RETHINKABLE international festival of transformative economies.
WHEN AND WHERE
Oct 14 2022
Location: Gorzia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia)
Taming the Forest is a hybrid research process and established collaboration in the art- science domain, implemented within the framework of cooperation among students, artists and researchers of the School of Humanities and the School of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica. The video was created and exclusively produced as part of preparations for the Resonances IV SciArt Summer School by the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, in response to the theme and concept of NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract; with scientific input and involvement from JRC forest scientist Matteo Vizzarri who met with the team from Nova Gorica prior to the Summer School.
As a project, Taming the Forest showcases the constructive nature of collaborations which integrate artistic and scientific approaches, methodologies and semiotics, accounting for their differences. In the video, Taming the Forest provides an interpretation of archival sources about forest management in the Karst at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. At the same time, it also brings new findings about forest management during the afforestation of the Karst, and timely reflections on the human-nature relationship. The complexity of experiencing the forest is given both through maps and photographs as well as in original illustrations of local birds and records of their singing, complemented by images created with artificial intelligence. They are connected into a whole by a sound composition that intertwines with spoken theory on complex systems.
Watch the video on Vimeo.
Authors:
Miha Godec (biosonification live)
Abiral Khadka (video, music score, biosonification live)
Nikita Meden (research, visualisations and photographs)
Tijana Mijušković (research, illustrations)
Kristina Pranjić (concept, research, theory)
Peter Purg (concept, research, theory)
Starting on October 14 (running from 14/10 to 16/10 and 20/10 to 22/10), this cross-border Festival on transformative economies, unites Italy and Slovenia by taking place between Gorizia and Nova Gorica. Focusing on movements and actions to counteract climate change, together with guests and certified partners, conversations will address a turn towards a fairer and more eco-friendly socio-economic model, which safeguards the environment as well as human relations.
