The Atlantic, artist Glenn Kaino, and Superblue announce at present the debut of A Forest for the Timber, an bold immersive present created and directed by visionary artist Glenn Kaino that’s designed to encourage audiences to reimagine their relationship with the pure world. Opening Might 13 and sponsored by Mastercard®, A Forest for the Timber will take guests on an hour-long journey by means of a surreal forest of magic, music, and surprise—with animatronic performing bushes, illusions of fireplace, and interactive sound sculptures, all hidden inside a 28,000-square-foot house in downtown Los Angeles. Responding to The Atlantic’s intensive writings which have formed American attitudes towards nature for greater than a century, the present is directed by Kaino working alongside Grammy-winning producer/musician David Sitek, as a part of the duo’s new band undertaking, HIGH SEAS.
A presale for Mastercard cardholders is open now*, with normal admission tickets out there for buy starting Might 2. Mastercard cardholders additionally obtain unique advantages, together with 10% off tickets and a one-month digital trial subscription to The Atlantic. Moreover, in help of Mastercard’s dedication to revive 100 million bushes by 2025 by means of the Priceless Planet Coalition, Conservation Worldwide will plant a tree for each ticket offered to the present. It is a limited-time expertise for all ages.
A Forest for the Timber is conceived as a journey by means of a forest and asks audiences to replicate on humanity’s relationship with nature, our reminiscence of the previous, and our optimism in regards to the future. The present is steeped in histories impressed by the folks closest to the forests and close by Los Angeles neighborhoods: from an immersive interactive fireplace phantasm referencing the managed burns which are central to Native forest stewardship, to the symbolic resurrection of an iconic 144-year-old tree from Olvera Road felled by a current storm. A Forest for the Timber will share transformative tales by means of spectacular illusions, bringing collectively artwork, music, and story in stunning new methods to create an expertise full of which means and objective.
A Forest for the Timber is created and directed by internationally famend, Los Angeles–based mostly artist Glenn Kaino, whose immersive artwork set up Within the Gentle of a Shadow is presently on view at MASS MoCA. The present is impressed by The Atlantic’s editorial collection “Who Owns America’s Wilderness?,” which launched in 2021 with the duvet story “Return the Nationwide Parks to the Tribes” written by David Treuer and edited by Ross Andersen, and by The Atlantic’s 165 years of writing by a number of the most influential voices on America’s pure areas. That custom started with the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a co-founder of the journal, and continued by means of the tip of the nineteenth century, when John Muir made his case for the nationwide parks in The Atlantic.
Over the previous 12 months, Kaino has been working alongside an interdisciplinary collective of artists, musicians, tribal leaders, and environmentalists to deliver A Forest for the Timber to life. Kaino and his crew additionally draw from greater than a decade of deep analysis into the sector of magic, together with the manufacturing of the hit off-broadway present and movie In & Of Itself. Vance Garrett (Sleep No Extra, Museum of Ice Cream) serves as government producer, bringing his deep background in immersive theater to the present, which is organized in collaboration with Superblue’s senior curator Kathleen Forde.
“I’ve labored my total profession to construct the instruments and relationships which have allowed me to embark upon a undertaking of this unprecedented scale and ambition, each conceptually and formally,” Kaino mentioned. “Intergenerational issues of this magnitude require new considering and new fashions about how we deliver collectively conventional ecological data and superior expertise. It’s my hope that this present can present inspiration into the way to join and contribute to a number of the most urgent problems with our time, in a dynamic and thrilling means that our viewers can take dwelling with them.”
Among the many collaborators and creators concerned with A Forest for the Timber:
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Unique music all through the undertaking is produced by Grammy Award–successful producer and musician David Sitek.
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The present is narrated by actor Jesse Williams.
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The singer-songwriters Priscilla Ahn, Kittie Harloe, and Alice Smith carry out in authentic songs by HIGH SEAS created for the present.
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The meals and beverage program is directed by celebrated chef Minh Phan of porridge + puffs and PHENAKITE, the latter of which earned its first Michelin star final 12 months, is a semi-finalist for a 2022 James Beard Award, and was named Los Angeles Instances Restaurant of the Yr in 2021.
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The on-site retailer is conceived and curated in collaboration with ThunderVoice Eagle, whose work explores circumstances of reminiscence and the sacred, carrying on the lineage of sustainable, hand-crafted Native trend by means of distinctive collaborations between Native cultures.
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Dakota and Lakota instructor and group organizer Breanne Luger is contributing writing and performances.
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Laundi Keepseagle, a Lakota artistic producer and group architect from the Standing Rock reservation, has been a key collaborator.
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Invoice Tripp, Director of the Division of Pure Sources, from the Karuk Tribe, essential stewards of the California forests and the inspiration for most of the artworks, has been the first advisor for the undertaking.
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Ukrainian artwork director Kirill Yeretsky created illustrations that assist deliver the tales to life.
The undertaking is developed and government produced by Atlantic Ventures, a enterprise growth group at The Atlantic that creates large-scale initiatives grounded in The Atlantic’s most consequential journalism.
“When The Atlantic printed the profound Wilderness undertaking in 2021, we knew this was the chance to discover a totally new area for expressing the drive of an Atlantic thought,” mentioned The Atlantic’s Brad Girson, government director of Atlantic Ventures and government producer of the present. “In Glenn Kaino and Kathleen Forde, we discovered artistic companions whose ambition, spirit, and expertise matched our personal. We’re very enthusiastic about this work and the way in which it represents a brand new strategy to enterprise and model growth in media.”
“Glenn Kaino is a visionary artist, whose work is emblematic of the way in which artists can change how we see the world and one another. Superblue’s partnership with The Atlantic displays our shared dedication to creating platforms for transformative initiatives resembling this one,” mentioned Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, co-founder and CEO, Superblue.
“A Forest for the Timber is an excellent reflection of a number of of Mastercard’s commitments—one to defending our planet and forest restoration by means of the Priceless Planet Coalition and one other, to main the advertising trade in creating Priceless experiences that deliver folks nearer to their passions,” mentioned Rustom Dastoor, EVP, Advertising and Communications, North America, Mastercard. “We’re thrilled to have such unimaginable companions in Glenn Kaino and The Atlantic, to assist in giving folks a method to get pleasure from themselves whereas concurrently giving again to a trigger they care about.”
Invoice Tripp, Director of the Division of Pure Sources for the Karuk Tribe, and a advisor on the undertaking, added “It has been an thrilling endeavor serving to to tell A Forest for the Timber, which goals to encourage understanding of how fireplace exclusion has impacted the Karuk folks and the pure atmosphere. I’m thrilled that these points can be explored in such an unprecedented method by means of this present and dropped at life in such attention-grabbing methods for a totally new viewers.”
A Forest for the Timber
Web site: AForestLA.com
Location: Ace Mission Studios at 516 South Mission Street, Los Angeles
Tickets: $10–$50 (youngsters and adults, peak and non-peak)
Dates: Opening Friday, Might 13, for a restricted run by means of summer season 2022
Normal Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6pm (verify for every day hours)
Social Media Handles: @aforestLA on Fb, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok
Press Contacts: Paul Jackson and Anna Bross, The Atlantic, press@theatlantic.com
*Mastercard unique presale ends April 26, 2022, or whereas provides final.
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A Forest for the Timber: Concerning the Companions and Key Collaborators
About The Atlantic
Since 1857, The Atlantic has been {a magazine} of concepts—a house to one of the best writers and boldest minds, who deliver readability and authentic considering to an important problems with our time. By way of our journalism, we intention to assist our readers higher perceive the world and its prospects, as they navigate the complexities of every day life. Jeffrey Goldberg is The Atlantic’s editor in chief; Nick Thompson is the CEO. The Atlantic earned the highest honor for magazines, Normal Excellence, on the 2022 Nationwide Journal Awards.
About Glenn Kaino
Glenn Kaino is a conceptual artist and award-winning creator. He has had exhibitions at museums world wide, and his work is included within the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, the Hammer Museum, and the Smithsonian American Artwork Museum, amongst many others. In 2013 he was chosen by the usDepartment of State to symbolize america within the thirteenth Cairo Biennale. He most lately co-directed With Drawn Arms, a movie about his collaboration with activist/athlete Tommie Smith on Starz, and produced each the off-broadway and movie variations of the Hulu hit particular In & Of Itself. Kaino is the co-curator of the Hammer Museum’s forthcoming Pacific Customary Time exhibition Breath(e): Towards Local weather and Social Justice; and the recipient of the 2 largest public-art grants within the historical past of Los Angeles for commissions on the metropolis’s sixth Road Viaduct and MTA LAX Metro Connector. Kaino can also be a digital pioneer who has led main digital manufacturers such because the Oprah Winfrey Community, Napster, and Common Music Group/Farmclub.
About Superblue
Superblue is a ground-breaking new enterprise devoted to supporting artists in realizing their most bold visions and fascinating audiences with experiential artwork. Its community of artists encompasses the main practitioners of experiential artwork, whose practices catalyze engagement with essentially the most urgent problems with our time and generate new views on our world.
By way of its experiential artwork facilities, that are particularly designed for presenting large-scale, immersive artwork installations, Superblue offers artists with expanded alternatives to move audiences to the brand new worlds they create. Within the coming years, Superblue will open new experiential facilities throughout the U.S. and internationally and is creating augmented- and virtual- actuality platforms for artists who’re exploring our quickly evolving relationship with the digital realm.
About Mastercard
Mastercard is a world expertise firm within the funds trade. Our mission is to attach and energy an inclusive, digital financial system that advantages everybody, in all places by making transactions protected, easy, sensible and accessible. Utilizing safe knowledge and networks, partnerships and keenness, our improvements and options assist people, monetary establishments, governments and companies notice their best potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our tradition and all the things we do inside and outdoors of our firm. With connections throughout greater than 210 international locations and territories, we’re constructing a sustainable world that unlocks priceless prospects for all. www.mastercard.com
About David Sitek
Since touchdown atop NME’s “Future 50” record, TV on the Radio founder David Andrew Sitek has produced Jane’s Habit, Kelis, Weezer, Scarlett Johansson, Pussy Riot, Preservation Corridor Jazz Band, Group Love, Karen O, and Willie Nelson, and collaborated with Blondie, Jay-Z, Run the Jewels, David Byrne, and Solange, touchdown a Grammy with Jay-Z & Beyoncé’s The Carters. He’s arguably essentially the most versatile and indefinable musical expertise of his technology, which, naturally, led to one thing as bold as A Forest for the Timber.
Earlier than seeding the early 2000s with a sound and imaginative and prescient quickly borrowed/purchased/offered as “Brooklyn Made,” Sitek educated within the visible arts, as a painter, photographer, and filmmaker. His first collaboration with Glenn Kaino, Within the Gentle of a Shadow, inhabits an area of equally grand scale at MASS MoCA till September of this 12 months.
About Vance Garrett
Vance Garrett is a pioneering experiential and artistic producer, whose work in immersive and theatrical occasions has outlined the cultural zeitgeist for practically twenty years. Garrett’s expertise overseeing groundbreaking initiatives like Sleep No Extra on the McKittrick Resort, 29Rooms, and the Museum of Ice Cream is rooted in his understanding of theatrical storytelling and an unrelenting dedication to creating new, multisensory experiences.
About HIGH SEAS
HIGH SEAS is an American artwork and music collective based by artists Glenn Kaino and David Sitek. Their first experimental undertaking, A Forest for the Timber, contains visitor vocals from Priscilla Ahn, Kittie Harloe, and Alice Smith.
About Atlantic Ventures
Atlantic Ventures is a enterprise growth group at The Atlantic that works throughout the group and with world-class artistic and enterprise companions to develop cultural initiatives rooted within the journal’s most consequential journalism.
