The Center for Nature in Cities Presents the Caledonian Decoy by Tim Collins and Reiko Goto
Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow.
FEBRUARY 2nd to 23rd, Tuesday to Sunday 11-6pm
This builds on the ongoing work with Caledonia forests. Some of this is very new work, we see it as experimental in that we are trying to address the urban/rural differential in some meaningful way through the use of a ‘decoy’. We are trying to get at the relationship between aesthetic, biodiversity and spirituality as well as an attempt to bridge the urban and rural/wild experience. Earlier work resulted in a ‘critical forest art practice’ which include the idea of art as interface in the rural setting and art as a correspondence between rural/urban viewers.
Cultural decoys capture our attention and curiosity. They are autonomous objects that offer a visual and conceptual entanglement in things and meaning. If fully embraced they challenge ideas about the separation between artifact, nature, city and highland forests.
