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WOODS is an interdisciplinary innovative project supporting contemporary artists and art organizations primarily from the Czech Republic and Norway. The project addresses a current social challenge of the environmental crisis through the intersection of contemporary art, ecology and neuroscience. It explores the potential of art, a discipline based on imagination and creativity, to inspire new perspectives and behaviours that allow for a more interconnected life on Earth.
Developed by Are in partnership with Kunsthall Trondheim and Rost AiR, the project will last two years and take place in the Czech Republic, Norway and online. It will consist of several activities: research, art residences, workshops, lectures, curatorial trips, artwork commissions, symposium, video interviews, a comprehensive reader, documentary film, and online formats. All the activities will be thematically connected and will culminate in July 2023 during the Forest Symposium in Orlické Mountains, co-curated in collaboration with project partners.
The artists will benefit from new artwork commissions, expanding their knowledge and capacity through connections with other artists, scientists and researchers, creating international networking and economic opportunities. These will be achieved by bilateral cultural cooperation between the Czech Republic and Norway leading to a broader audience, new individual and corporate sponsors of contemporary art, and strengthened capacity of cultural organizations.
The project will connect scientists with artists and cultural organizations. Project partners and participants will benefit from an opportunity of creating new curatorial concepts, professional growth, and a newly established sustainable network of art and academic entities which will enable further exchange and economic opportunities.