This episode of the Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Podcast features a new audio essay, The forest will answer in the way you call to it, by Hanna Tuulikki, encouraging a conversation with the woods, exploring her Finnish heritage, and weaving together family stories, folklore and song. The piece reflects on how ideals of ecology, identity, and nationhood are constructed and entwined. The essay features audio extracts from her installation Under Forest Cover (Metsänpeiton Alla), commissioned for Helsinki Biennial 2021.

Fermynwoods Podcast 17 - Hanna Tuulikki

Our immersive tour of Northampton Town Football Club, The Twelfth Player, was featured Talk Sport.

The Twelfth Player was an audio-visual performance at Sixfields Stadium – taking place in the real world and on screen – blending site-specific performance and handheld video technology, to move audiences seamlessly between brilliantly observed characters, placing them right in the heart of the action.

2015/16 was arguably the most dramatic and euphoric Season in the Cobblers’ long and colourful history. In the dark days of November, the Club was deep in trouble. Staff and players were not getting paid, and Administration was a very real possibility. But through the dedication of their extraordinary fans – the team’s twelfth player – they made an amazing recovery, welcoming a remarkable takeover, bouncing back into League 1 and winning the Club’s first League title for 29 years.

The Twelfth Player was a unique collaboration between Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Royal & Derngate and Northampton Town Football Club. Throughout the summer, audiences had a special opportunity to go behind the scenes on a 45 minute walking tour around Sixfields Stadium itself and through the past seventy years of the Club’s history, viewing the passionate world of football through the eyes of three generations of a family of Cobblers supporters.

The Twelfth Player feature on Talk Sport

Fermynwoods Contemporary Art is an educational charity and arts organisation that supports life through art. We commission innovative and meaningful ways for visual artists to engage with audiences, in public spaces across Northamptonshire and online.

Our podcast is an audio gallery space and extension of our programme, featuring original sound art, artist discussions, and audio essays.

The Twelfth Player feature on Talk Sport

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