Tipping Point
4 – 6 October 2024, University of Bristol Botanic Garden.
Artist Luke Jerram is creating a thrilling sound and light installation, at University of Bristol Botanic Gardens, this October. Tipping Point is a simulated forest fire combining smoke, lights, and sound to create a captivating affect, and raise critical awareness about banks investing our money in destroying forests.
In collaboration with BAFTA award winning composer Dan Jones, the artwork includes an immersive soundtrack which includes audio of trees burning, chainsaws whirring, animals running and birds flying away, to bring the reality of deforestation to life. The soundtrack also contains interviews with people about their direct experience of forest fires.
Research shows that £2 in every £10 invested in the average UK pension goes to companies linked to deforestation. This despite pension holders’ clear views that they don’t want their money driving deforestation. The artwork aims to inspire the public to pressure the pensions industry to cut deforestation from our investments. Find out more about this here.
Members of the public can experience the spectacle on 4th, 5th and 6th October, at University of Bristol Botanic Gardens. As well as a programme of talks over the weekend, on site will also be staff from the University of Bristol’s Cabot Institute of the Environment to talk with visitors about forest fires and climate change.
Tipping Point has been commissioned by University of Bristol Botanic Garden and the charity Make My Money Matter.
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