{"id":23860,"date":"2025-04-25T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=23860"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:36:48","slug":"the-wishing-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2025\/04\/the-wishing-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wishing Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Launching on Saturday 26 April 2025, 6-8pm at Void Art Centre, until Saturday 7 June 2025<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Void Arts Centre are excited to invite you to <i>The Wishing Forest<\/i>, a project initiated by St\u00e9phane V. Bott\u00e9ro in collaboration with Boris Raux, Maud Louise-Marie, George McLaughlin and Prehen Wood, Rachel Duffy and the Playtrail, Roy and Kathryn Nelson at Killymuck, Philip Allen and Ruth McCartney.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23861\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/>The Wishing Forest<\/i>\u00a0is a long-term socio-ecological art project which aims to instigate a collective rethinking of how local institutions can collaborate on life-nurturing commitments that benefit more-than-human communities.<\/p>\n<p>Titled after a poem by Seamus Heaney,\u00a0<i>The Wishing Forest<\/i>\u00a0seeks to repurpose modern institutional tools, such as the tradition of artwork acquisitions by public art collections, in order to restore biodiverse woodlands. In doing so, the project thinks through ways in which forestry can be redefined as an artistic process in its own right.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Wishing Forest<\/i>, in its long-term nature, has comprised a period of research with local researchers, ecologists and activists. During this process, we learnt about small woodlands being grown in the north of Ireland, and the multiple ways in which the public are invited into these sites which shelter biodiverse habitats whilst being spaces used for creative, educational and well-being purposes.<\/p>\n<p>This iteration of\u00a0<i>The Wishing Forest<\/i>\u00a0at Void operates as a public launch of the project, acting as a gathering space for actors, a poetic and speculative reflection and a platform for sharing knowledge, process and research, highlighting the many hands involved in this work.<\/p>\n<p>St\u00e9phane\u2019s solo exhibition\u00a0<i>The Wishing Forest<\/i>\u00a0is supported by Fluxus and Arts Council Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching on Saturday 26 April 2025, 6-8pm at Void Art Centre, until Saturday 7 June 2025 &nbsp; Void Arts Centre are excited to invite you to The Wishing Forest, a project initiated by St\u00e9phane V. Bott\u00e9ro in collaboration with Boris Raux, Maud Louise-Marie, George McLaughlin and Prehen Wood, Rachel Duffy and the Playtrail, Roy and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2025\/04\/the-wishing-forest\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23862,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23860\/revisions\/23862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}