Invasive Species

Created by Fast Familiar with An Tobar and Mull Theatre and Play:Vienna, featuring Spectrum of Belonging by Yulia Kovanova & Ross Mclean.

Aros Park, Tobermory

Free | Equipment collected from An Tobar and Mull Theatre

A lasting installation for the next seven years

What belongs here?

An island shaped by centuries of arrival, adaptation and change. Forests planted and cleared. Species introduced and displaced. Visitors arriving by sea. Stories taking root.

Set within the woodland paths and shoreline of Aros Park, Invasive Species is a free audio walk and sculptural installation exploring the layered relationship between landscape, ecology and human presence on Mull.

Collect your equipment from An Tobar and set out on a 45-minute self-guided journey through sound, story and contemporary visual art. Along the route, discover Spectrum of Belonging: a series of striking sculptural markers by artists Yulia Kovanova and Ross Mclean of The Surface Agency, inspired by the species, colours and ecological tensions woven through the island itself.

Created by Fast Familiar in collaboration with Play and An Tobar and Mull Theatre, Invasive Species unfolds across deep time, tracing stories of migration, adaptation and environmental transformation. Rhododendrons, imported trees, tourists, white-tailed eagles and human settlers become part of a shifting conversation about coexistence, intervention and what it means to belong within a changing landscape.

As narrative audio, music, sculpture and landscape intertwine, familiar surroundings begin to feel newly alive: layered, lived-in and continually shaped by the encounters between species, histories and people.

This is not a guided tour of the landscape. It is an invitation to listen more closely to it.

Installed in Aros Park from July 2026, Invasive Species will remain in place for seven years, inviting residents and visitors alike to experience the landscape through new perspectives and changing seasons.

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Practical Information

• Free to experience

• Available daily during normal An Tobar and Mull Theatre opening hours

• Equipment collected from An Tobar Café open weekdays 10am - 4pm

• Approx. 1 hour

• Rough terrain through Aros Park

• Not wheelchair accessible

• Walking shoes and wet weather clothing advised

Invasive Species is created with an audience aged 13+ in mind. There is no offensive language or sexual content, and references to violence are generalised, but younger audiences may not relate to some of the ideas explored in the work.

Invasive Species by Fast Familiar, co-created with An Tobar and Mull Theatre and Play:Vienna, featuring Spectrum of Belonging by The Surface Agency: Yulia Kovanova & Ross Mclean.