Robin McNicholas

An immersive audiovisual experience using global Earth systems datasets to explore water as the connective tissue of life revealing its continuous movement through rivers, oceans, landscapes and living beings as one planetary circulation.

This live performance is set in a virtual midsummer forest. Under the shadow of gathering clouds at dusk, lit by the glimmer of fireflies, Puck acts as the guide. Audiences are invited to explore the forest from the canopy of the trees to the roots, meet the sprites, Cobweb, Mustardseed, Peaseblossom and Moth, and take an extraordinary journey into the eye of a cataclysmic storm. Together with Puck they must regrow the forest before the dawn. When day breaks, the spell breaks.

Illuminates the ecosystem surrounding a capinuri tree (Maquira coriacea) in the Colombian Amazon, and recreates a real plot of Amazonian forest in its full majesty and astounding detail, revealing the beauty and fragility of these tropical environments, bringing to light the many delicate interactions and relationships that exist between the major kingdoms of life.