A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
2019
performance; moving image; sound; drawing
Strange moments of magical possibility, hovering on the edge of vision.
Single channel HD video with stereo sound and text
Cinematic screening: 2 mins 21 sec
Gallery | Site specific exhibition: continuous loop with sound
An improvised, unobserved performance in the Forest Garden, as an unfolding, personal ritual, immersed in processed field recordings of the location’s dawn chorus.
Location: Forest Garden, Suffolk, UK
The Forest Garden Project is a developing concept which exists somewhere between ecological research, quiet activism, ritual, experiment and performance. A space of contradiction, slowness and listening in collaboration with the flora and fauna. In response to a search for the ‘rural idyll’ in places of increasing marginalisation, where the rural and industrial intersect and elide; where genetically engineered technologies turn fields into labs blurring the boundaries between the natural and the synthetic. The Forest Garden Project attempts to counter this lonely place of silent disquiet which reflects a bewildered disbelief at the damage we wreak on the natural world.
re-imagining, myth, magic realism
© Sophie Standford