Active Ingredient in Residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

A Conversation Between Trees is a new artwork that attempts to reveal the invisible elements of forest and woodland locations in the UK and Brazil. During the residency at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Active Ingredient will be hiding out in the park, collecting sensory data, images and drawings to investigate and reveal the invisible elements at play in the woodland areas.

In our imaginations forests and woodlands are fairy tale places, where you can lose yourself on a journey, where shadows follow you, beasts track you and witches dwell.  In British myths Robin Hood hides out in the forest as a rebel against authority, in Brazilian mythology Saci Perere is a mischievous character who plays tricks on people that harm the forest. Forests can also be places of protection, a place to hide, where invisible forces are at play that the scientists say help protect our world's climate.

Throughout the residency Active Ingredient will be conducting a series of experiments, including a live link-up between trees in Yorkshire Sculpture
Park and the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

*Come along to the Longside Studios at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park between 1-4pm to participate and view our interactive experiments.*

A Conversation Between Trees is a playful conversation between artists, scientists, audience and location exploring forest ecologies in the UK and Brazil, developed through a series of residency labs.  Developed in collaboration with Horizon at the University of Nottingham, Silvia Leal, Bruno Rezende Silva at the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janiero, Brazil and Carlo Buontempo, senior climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in
Exeter UK.