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As you walk into the room, you realize it’s no normal room. It’s a living forest, transported into the frame of four white walls.
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This is Invocation for Hope, a new living installation by the speculative future group Superflux for the Vienna Biennale that asks viewers to look climate change in the eye. (The installation runs now through October 3, and is free to attend inside the Museum of Applied Arts.).
[Photo: Stefan Lux Zetteler/MAK/courtesy Superflux]You walk through a perfect grid of burned trees, to reach a thriving, free-form forest. And in the middle, there’s a pool to gaze into where you will see, not your own actual reflection, but other animals thriving.
Tree art is putting down roots
Tree art is putting down roots
Arboreal art is having a moment. We explore how artists are installing trees in public spaces as odes to social change. Branching out of barking fad?
Klaus Littmann,
Arena for a Tree, 2021. Photography: Gerhard Maurer
It may sound far fetched, but we have it under good authority that art is starting to grow on trees. They line our parks, maintain our industries and sustain our existence. And trees’ role in public installation art is far from revolutionary. One need only bark back to the artist and environmental activist Joseph Beuys’
April 29, 2021 4:48 pm
Tick Tock packaging, by Jamie Nash
Rooibos tea brand Tick Tock approached Jamie Nash Studio to develop its newly launched Wellbeing flavour collection and add two more variants. With many brands already in the market and drinkers loyal to their favourite, Nash says the aim was to express Tick Tock’s “playful personality” across packaging and branding.
This has been done through animals. A leaping zebra has been chosen to represent the Ginger Boost tea, with Nash saying this accurately depicts the “zingy, uplifting mood” of the product. Meanwhile a tiger taking a calming dip in a river adorns Chai Relax. He says the tiger swimming in the reflection of the warm sun “perfectly captures” the flavour.