International conferences are rife with drama, a fact that did not escape Frédéric Ferrer on 15 December 2007 as he watched TV. “As the emissary’s of mankind meet in Bali for their final plenary session to seek a post-Kyoto agreement, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change asks for the floor. The world’s fate hangs in the balance. Mankind is about to decide on the collective future of this planet and how forthcoming generations will live on it. The Executive Secretary looks at the assembly, then puts his head in his hands and covers his face. A heave silence spreads across the room. He looks to the heavens and breaks down in tears before the world’s cameras. This is what inspired Kyoto Forever in 2008 and the idea of portraying an international summit where the world’s fate hangs in the balance.”

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Beuys on Tour is the continuation of the work the pair began at dOCUMENTA in Kassel, Germany in 2007, when Ackroyd & Harvey collected several hundred acorns fallen from the 7000 oaks that German artist Joseph Beuys planted in 1982. Ever since, Ackroyd & Harvey have been pursuing Beuys’s dream for cities to become like forests. The British artists sprout the acorns, tend to the saplings and exhibit them, as they did at La Maréchalerie in Versailles last July.

This autumn Ackroyd & Harvey will take the descendants of Beuys’s oaks to Nantes, Bordeaux, Nice and Mulhouse, bringing scientists, academics and artists in contact with audiences to dialogue about climate change. At the end of the tour, on 29 November 2015, a few days before the COP21 talks begin, an oak tree will be planted in Paris with representatives of the [...]

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