Angel Field Festival 2023: Tongues of the Trees

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This exhibition takes place in The Cornerstone Foyer (Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus, 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP) from 24th March -1st April.

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Tongues of the Trees is a visual and audio work created by Lizzie King and Dr. Rebekah Okpoti. Dr. Okpoti and King started to collaborate in the summer of 2022 to create an audio work to go alongside the visual imagery being created by King on the subject of Shinrin-Yoku, also known as Forest Bathing. The visual work evolved into looking at the life of trees, their network and how they live connected to one another and how this is mirrored in our construction of a park using more ecologically sustainable materials than the traditional methods used for the processes. The audio result has been two 20 minute works consisting of field recordings by King from Peel Park in Salford, both artists birth city, with field recordings and responsive violin, piano, bells, and organ from Dr. Okpoti. ‘Attention’ and ‘Awe’ were the two words at the centre of this project as the artists focused on what it is like to shed cameras and phones and focus on the reality of the forest.