The Rainbow Forest is a combination of components, smaller projects, coming together to create a greater vision - planting a forest of 10000 trees near Cape Town in South Africa that is an organic sculpture garden and home to the Imagination School.
Trees are planted by buying art and; a community and conversation is started by building a collaborative sculptural forest.
This is an exploration of seeds and the concept of potentiality they represent. A series of giant size seeds developed through visual investigations, drawings and collaborative sculptures.
Contemplating the beginnings of a thousand year old tree is a magnificent perspective shifter. It has one wondering who one could truly be if we nurtured our wildest dreams!
The next frontier is our imagination.
The Imagination School is aimed instigating a generation of imaginaires; visionaries; solutionists; transformers and manifestors who trust and believe in possibilities beyond our current understanding. They are able to see the present world and imagine it differently. Their lives lived, are extensions of their ever changing understanding.
This Swedish version is a collaboration with artist, Lena Boda, and curator, Hans Davis.
The Banquet is the perfect intervention for integration of people of a variety of cultures. A range of workshops will lead us into this interactive installation.
Sitting down at a table together; sharing food; moments of our lives; slices of our dreams is the nectar of being alive.
Odin is a norse God who traded his eye for wisdom.
Odin's Eye is a large-scale land artwork in Sweden that can be seen from Google Earth and will last for over a thousand years.
In the center of Odin's Eye is the Tree of Wisdom. It will be built using the basic elements of existence as inspiration and will become a hub for experiential, exponential learning and understanding.
Designed to be impossibly possible; an invitation to exist in the unknown and trust.
For two months a group of changing people lived and built The Tree of Life. They faced the adverse conditions of weather, materials, illness, human defeat verses the passion and dreams alive in their hearts and souls.
Dream Yggdrasil is a Swedish non-profit organisation set up by Agust Orn Helgeson and Nix.
It is born out of a shared vision of instigating positive change through creativity. Dream Yggdrasil creates collaborative platforms that uses large-scale art to build exponential, experimental communities.
These massive woven balls are magnets for interaction. They started in 2008 in London when someone left a pile of sticks outside Nix's classroom. She has made them in Amsterdam and South Africa.
They are getting bigger and have more recently become rolling spaces people can climb in and hang out.
"Through the mystery of navigating the unknown we are able to wondrously unravel our hearts to expose their true nature.“
Nix Davies is a collaborative, conceptual artist that explores possibilities that arise from consciously stepping into and existing in the unknown. She creates and produces large-scale experiential spaces, events and artworks that ordinarily are impossible to create alone. Nix initiates, instigates and ignites concepts by establishing a platform that require others to step up, risk, interact and belong to the process alongside her. This requires Nix to co-create; manage individuals and groups; and produce an over all piece of work by consciously making or facilitating a series of choices of best possible solutions for specific moments.
Nix often embarks on ‘life installations’ that showcase the emerging and developing of concepts along an ordinarily unknown journey. It is while living and navigating these spaces that she breathes ideas to life.
Nix Davies Conceptual Artist