COLLINS & GOTO STUDIO Reiko Goto Collins, PhD, MFA, BFA Email: [email protected] Cell: (0)7780 358 693,

Reiko Goto is an environmental artist, author and designer, working in the Collins and Goto Studio. Currently focused on the development of new work dealing with empathic relationships, sentience and collaboration with The Darkness aka An Dorchadas. She is also a participant in the women’s group, the Council for Uncertain Human Futures at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of . Working with Tim she is focused on the sculptural elements and installation design for for Nature in Cities (CNC). The first project The Caledonian Decoy will be an installation and a series of programmes that play with the time and space of a forest in an urban setting. It is scheduled for exhibition in the Intermedia Gallery at CCA, Glasgow, in 2017. Other confirmed exhibitions include Future Stratigraphy at the University of , Australia; plans are underway to exhibit a touring version of Plein Air in USA in 2018.

In 2016 presentations will occur at conferences at Time Span, True North in Helmsdale; at the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Creative Commons National Event at University; and with the Landscape and Arts Network, Artists, Farmers and Philosophers conference in Newcastle. Current collaborative publications include a paper on deliberation, ecology and artistic engagement for the Ecosystems Services Journal; a paper on critical forest art practice for the landscape Research Journal; and a book chapter on imagination and empathy with trees for a book on Ecologies of participation: co-producing knowledge in more-than-human worlds; and a book chapter on defining a practice, for Elemental: An Arts and Ecology Reader.

In 2015 Collins and Goto presented work at Visual Sounds: Bioakustische Musik, for Neue Musik Köln, Cologne Germany, they also initiated the development of the exhibition, artwork and seminars for Sylva Caledonia with Gerry Loose, Morven Gregor and Chris Fremantle at Summerhall in Edinburgh. They presented work at venues such as Camp Breakdown Breakdown at The Scottish Sculpture Studios and at Brooklyn College in New York. They have also contributed to academic seminars such as Muir and Environmental Values and Creating and Collaborating at University of Edinburgh.

EXHIBITIONS 2025 Research and Development to exhibition - A forest charter for the 21st century for 2025. 2018 Planning underway - Plein Air Life, work for US exhibition under development at multiple venues. 2017 The Center for Nature in Cities presents: The Caledonian Decoy, At the Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow. 2016 A Tree is a LIVING Thing (The Piper Schelling Experiments). In the Future Stratigraphy at the University of Sydney, Australia 2015 Sound of a Tree, Curated by Georg Dietzler. In Visual Sounds: Bioakustische Musik, ON - Neue Musik Köln, Cologne Germany. Sylva Caledonia with Gerry Loose, Morven Gregor and Chris Fremantle. Curated by James Howie (ASCUS) and Holly Knox Yeoman. Summerhall, the Genotype/Phenotype gallery, Edinburgh Scotland. 2013 Eden3: Trees are the Language of Landscape, Tent Gallery at Edinburgh College of Art. Edinburgh, Scotland. CO2 Edenburgh, with Creative Carbon Scotland, for the Edinburgh Festival, Tent Gallery at Edinburgh College of Art. Edinburgh, Scotland. The Forest is Moving - Tha a’ Choille a’ Gluasad. ( and Art Gallery 2012 Goto, R., Poison Ivy, photographs in the group exhibition “Beyond Landscape features Women Environmental Artist Directly”, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, California, U.S.A. 2011 Goto, R., Douglas, A. and Coessens, K., Calendar Variations, a performance and exhibition in the workshop “Eco-tone: Object Space Entanglements”, Trent University, U.K. Goto, R., Collins, T., Nine Run and 3 Rivers 2nd Nature, in “Too Shallow for Fiving-The 21st Century is Treading Water”, curated by Speranza, C., Jewish Community Center, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Goto, R., Calendar Variations, (installation and performance) curated by Douglas, A. and Coessens, K., Lang Byre Gallery, Woodend Barn, anchory, U.K. 2010 Goto, R., Collins, T., Plein Air: The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse. Peacock Visual Arts, , U.K.

PUBLICATIONS Collins, T., Goto Collins, R., Edwards, D. (2016 forthcoming) Seeking shared and cultural values in a Caledonian forest: integrating deliberation, ecology and artistic engagement. In Ecosystem Services Journal, Special Session on Cultural Ecosystem Services: Frontiers in Theory and Practice, Ed. Kenter, J. Netherlands: Elsevier Publications. Collins, T., Goto Collins, R., Edwards, D. (2016 forthcoming) A Critical Forest Art Practice. In Landscape Research Journal (Issue TBD). Collins, T., Goto, Collins, R. (2016) Defining a Practice: With Reflection on Sylva Caledonia. In Elemental: An Arts and Ecology Reader, Brady, J., Ed. UK: Gaia Press Goto Collins, R., Collins, T. (2016 forthcoming) Imagination and Empathy - Artists with Trees. In Ecologies of participation: co-producing knowledge in more-than-human worlds. Eds. Bastian, M., Jones, O., Roe, E. Oxon, UK: Taylor and Francis. Edwards, D. Goto Collins, R., (2016) “Does the Conservation Status of a Caledonian Forest also Indicate Cultural Ecosystem Value?” In Bio Cultural Diversity in . Ed. Agnoletti, M. of the University of Firenze, Italy. : Springer-Verlag. Collins, T., Goto Collins, R., Edwards, D. (2015) Future Forest: The Blackwood, Scotland. and Roslin: Landscape Research Group Press and Forest Research. Goto, R., (2014) “Ecofeminism: “Art as Environment – A Cultural Action at Plum Tree Creek in New Taipei City, Taiwan”. In WEAD Fall 2014. http://weadartists.org/magazine Goto, R. and Collins, (2013) “Imagination and Empathy: Artists with Trees”. In Newman, C., Nussaume, Y., And Pedroli, B. (Eds.) Landscape & Imagination. France: Bandecchi & Vivaldi. Goto, R. and Collins, T., (2012) ‘LIVING Things-The ethical, aesthetic impulse”. In Brady, E. And Pheminster, P. (Eds.) Human-Environment Relations: Tranformative Values in Theory and Practice. London: Springer-Verlag. London: Springer-Verlag. Ball, L., Collins, T., Goto, R., Damon, B. (2011) Environmental Art as Eco-cultural Restoration. IN Egan, D., Hjerpe, E., Abrams, J (eds.) Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration. Washington, Covelo, London: Island Press (pp. 299-312). Goto, R. and Collins T. (2011) Plein Air: The Ethical and Aesthetic Impulse. On line publication: WEAD Spring 2011. http://weadartists.org/magazine Goto, R.(2011) Beyond Planning and Empathic Engagement. On line publication: Public Art Scotland.http://www.publicartscotland.com/reflections/75 Goto, R., (2011)Redrawing Kaprow’s Calender. In Coessens, K. And Douglas, A. (EDS.) On Calendar Variations. Woodend Barn, Banchory, Scotland.

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