Futuresonic

Gallery installation of 250 oak saplings and 3 day in-conversation event with Ackroyd & Harvey and guests.

In 2007, Ackroyd & Harvey gathered and germinated hundreds of acorns from renowned artist Joseph Beuys's seminal artwork 7000 Oaks in Germany, and in doing so began a new long term research project. This will be the first exhibition of Beuys's Acorns, which explores the agency of ideas associated with the provenance of the trees and provokes questions as to the artists relationship with nature, the changing climate and collapsing economic order. Beuys had a mission. To change the social order. Mostly the money system. Ackroyd & Harvey will ask what the legacy of Beuys's mission is given the climate of ecological and economic degradation at the beginning of the 21st century.

Gallery in-conversation times are listed below.

Ackroyd & Harvey will be in conversation with artist and activist James Marriott at Castlefield Gallery at 6.30pm on Thursday 14 May. Click here

Biography

Sculpture, photography, biology and ecology are some of the disciplines that intersect in Ackroyd & Harvey's work, resulting in time based acts that reveal an intrinsic bias towards process and event. They have exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, in found spaces of architectural interest and established galleries and museums.

www.artsadmin.co.uk/artists/ah

In conversation timetable

Thursday 14 May

11.30 - 12.00
Sally Mizon
Communications Officer, Red Rose Forest
http://www.redroseforest.co.uk

13.00 - 13.30
Kevin Wigley
Green Streets Project Officer, Red Rose Forest
http://www.redroseforest.co.uk/greenstreets

14.00 - 15.00
Dr Roland Ennos
Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester
http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/research/themes/plantsciences/
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/archive/list/item/?id=2780&year=2007&month=05

15.30 - 16.30
Heather Birchill
Curator (Historic Fine Art) The Whitworth Art Gallery
Co-curator of forthcoming exhibition Deep Rooted: How Trees Shape Our Lives
http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk

Friday 15 May

11.30 - 12.00
Jessica Thompson
Community Liaison Manager
Red Rose Forest Community Network
http://www.redroseforest.co.uk/communitynetwork/projects

14.00 - 15.00
Dave Barlow
Environmental Engagement Manager, Neighbourhood Services, Manchester City Council
http://www.wildaboutmanchester.info
http://www.manchestergreencity.co.uk

Saturday 16 May

14.00
Penny Skerrett
Participant in Transition City Manchester
http://transitioncitymanchester.wordpress.com