Online Premiere

Join ATLAS and Art Night as we premiere Isabel Lewis’ What can we learn about love from Lichen? – online for 48 hours.

In this Art Night co-commission with ATLAS, Lewis poses the question, ​“What can we learn about love from lichen?” as a point of departure. Building on research and conversations with locally based collaborators, Isabel choreographed a series of guided walks across Skye — at Achnacloich, Scorrybreac, and Coille Ìosal, Braes. Led by the local agents — a wild forager, a composer, and a lichen expert, the walks wove a circuitous narrative about interspecies bonds and the potential for ecological attunement, brought together in a hosted occasion at Braes Hall on Saturday 19^th June.

With sound, song, touch and taste ​“What can we learn about love from lichen?” tunes into more sensuous forms of knowing the landscape and the society between species — and thinking with lichen.

Including sound work originally installed at Braes Hall on 19 June as part of Isabel’s Hosted Occasion, as well as drawings, interviews, and excerpts from the publication produced as part of the project.

Isabel Lewis’ 2021 Art Night project is curated by Helen Nisbet, Artistic Director of Art Night as a co-commission with ATLAS Arts, with support from Goethe-Institut. What can we learn about love from lichen? was produced in collaboration with local agents Lucy Cooke, Richy Carey, Nick Hodgetts and Producer Shona Cameron. Made in partnership with Compton Verney, with support from Goethe-Institut and Callie’s, Berlin.