‘Community’ is the third 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.explores what has been referred to as the ‘tragedy of the commons’, when public areas were gradually privatised, and links this into how community networks are established.
–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/
–LINKS–
Artist website: shanefinan.org/
Project description page: varc.org.uk/entwined/shane-finan/
Project overview: Further information on this video: varc.org.uk/shane-finan-network-community/
–CREDITS–
Direction, editing, animation, video and audio: shane finan
video from artwork ‘antikythera etc’: orla mcnelis orlamcnelis.com/
Animations generated using code written in Processing: processing.org
Third voice on “Never Just a Tree”: steven lipscombe, kielderhead wildwood project
Music used under Licence from Free Music Archive and Archive.org:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Support Open Source software and art
The Agrarians: They Bring Forest Deities Their Modern Laws (freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Agrarians/ )
Violetta Päivänkakkara: Forest (mixtape) (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Violeta_Pivnkakkara)
Jukeen: Solastalgia – (https://archive.org/details/jamendo-036155)
Archive footage thanks to:
Seattle Municipal Archives (maypole footage) – https://archive.org/details/SMA_521
City of Vancouver (sawmill footage) – https://archive.org/details/CVAN_MI-269
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (Amazon deforestation and urban development)
