The Forest of Everything (2019) in collaboration with with Richy Carey.
The Forest of Everything is about collaborating, a playing with and knowing with. Influenced by Margaret Tait’s Aerial (1974), Wendy, Richy and the children played, played, and played again with the materials around them; light, water, air, earth and trees. Knowing and knowing anew how we meet and compose these materialities through moving, making, looking and listening.
The images and soundtrack are made from the children’s own recordings of their surroundings, a song they wrote, and fragments of their play.
Credits:
Performers: The children from Hyndland School Afty
Sound: The children from Hyndland School Afty, Richy Carey
Camera: The children from Hyndland School Afty, Wendy Kirkup, Jim Burns
The Forest of Everything was commissioned for ‘there and then and never again‘, Margaret Tait 100 and is included in the LUX Touring programme there and then and never again.
Screenings:
2023
Cineastra Film Festival, Glasgow, ‘Light Touches’ programme curated by Esmé Haddrill Selman.
2021
there and then and never again, Margaret Tail 100 + Personae book launch, LUX, London
2021
Miraculous Noise curated by LUX Scotland, Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark.
2019
there and then and never again, Margaret Tail 100 (LUX Touring), CCA Glasgow.
2019
there and then and never again, Margaret Tail 100 (LUX Touring), Inverness Film Festival.
2019
there and then and never again, Margaret Tail 100 (LUX Touring), Pier Art Center, Orkney.
LUX: there and then and never again commissions
Wendy Kirkup 