Rewilding Encounters of Langthorne Park
Artist Commission
Site specific interactive game, 2023
Inspired by William Morris’s proto-ecotopian fiction News from Nowhere, this is a speculative public artwork and mobile-friendly game in response to the Radical Landscapes exhibition at the William Morris Gallery, exploring the natural environment and landscapes of Langthorne Park, Leytonstone. Produced in collaboration with Leytonstone Toy Library, the Youth Club at Worth Unlimited and local communities. This project aims to explore digital rewilding – connecting the hyperlocal ecology of Langthorne Park to the wider global Climate Emergency and exploring how boundaries between humans, nature and technology are dissolving. The work draws on themes of identity, social mobility, collective storytelling, and our relationship to place. In a series of workshops, local residents and young people worked with digital artists to imagine the future of Langthorne Park, set in a parallel universe. The results of the workshops are re-interpreted into an interactive site-specific mobile-friendly game.
Website with access to game: wildwired.world
Exhibited
Radical Landscapes at the William Morris Gallery with Hervisions, and on site in Langthorne Park
London, UK October 2023 - February 2024
Exhibited
Presented at
Softer Futures
Copenhagen, Denmark 2024
Forward Festival
Berlin, Germany 2024
