Throughout May and June, Canadian duo Mia & Eric will research the ecology, history, and contemporary uses of Folkeparken. They will be working with the community to understand the many different relationships that humans, plants, animals, bugs, and fungus have to each other in the woods. As part of their residency, they will offer workshops, an audio walk in the woods, and an artist talk. Their final work will be presented in summer 2022.

3 WOODS is a trilogy of community-engaged art works about three forests in Europe: Folkeparken in Harstad, Palatinate in South West Germany, and Chopwell Wood located at the edge of Gateshead, a small town in North East England. The projects are commissioned by Arctic Arts Festival (Norway), Matchbox: Itinerant Arts and Culture Project (Germany), and GIFT: Gateshead International Theatre Festival(UK).

About Mia & Eric

Mia & Eric are an award winning interdisciplinary artist team from Calgary, Canada. They bring together elements of craft, performance, and multi-species ethnography to create site-specific and socially-engaged works. Mia & Eric's practice interrogates interspecies relationships, biodiversity, and place-based knowledge production in cities, small towns, and rural spaces. Throughout the last 13 years they have developed a practice that operates in both a gallery and public context.

Supported by Alberta Foundation for the Arts