‘Forests’ is the second video in the series ‘Never Just A Tree’, as part of the residency ‘The Wood Wide Web’ in collaboration with the Kielderhead Wildwood Project, Kielder.
He develops an understanding of how forests communicate with one another, linked to recent research on the “Wood Wide Web”. The ‘Wood Wide Web’ is a recently discovered phenomenon about networks of fungi and trees that spread through forests, sharing and exchanging information, food, water and other resources.
–PROJECT–
The project is coordinated by VARC and funded through the residency partners for the programme ENTWINED. Rural. Land. Lives. Art. The partner on Shane’s project is Northumberland Wildlife Trust: varc.org.uk/entwined/
Shane’s residency is co-funded by the Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Fund: artscouncil.ie/home/
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Artist website: shanefinan.org/
Project description page: varc.org.uk/entwined/shane-finan/
Project overview: Further information on the project plan: varc.org.uk/shane-finan-network-forests/
–CREDITS–
Direction, editing, animation, video and audio: shane finan
Image of Alexander von Humbold’ts Naturgemalde courtesy of Wikimedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt#/media/File:Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_-Ideen_zu_einer_Geographie_der_Pflanzen_nebst_einem_Naturgem%C3%A4lde_der_Tropenl%C3%A4nder-_000012142.jpg
Second voice on ‘never just a tree’: Amy Bunce
Music used under Licence from Free Music Archive and Archive.org:
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The Agrarians: They Bring Forest Deities Their Modern Laws (freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Agrarians/ )
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