THE POSSIBILITY OF A TREE.

For 3 months, I used a tree as a platform to indirectly interact with my neighbors and trace their ideas about the role of that specific tree in their lives and in the physical space they inhabit. By differentiating the tree from the urban landscape through certain actions, I was able to point a site and facilitate through it new relationships that expanded the genealogy of the traditional ideas of the possibility of a tree. I opened it to be a temple, a shrine, a community center, a subject instead of an object, a spiritual advisor, a cheater, a hugger, a murder, a herbal healer, a lottery player and a hair stylist among other roles. Everyday I performed an action and along time, I started receiving reactions from the neighbors. I got involved with the persons that interacted with the tree and was able to access the cosmology that surrounds it though their personal histories and beliefs; facts or fiction, scientific or subjective, all facts were included in this constructed history that echoes the present situation of a neighborhood in a non-traditional and inclusive way. A diary essay and a documentary were made from this experience and about our ideas about what are the possibilities of a tree.

 

 

The tree is located in an island between Dekalb Av., Broadway Av. and an unnamed street.If you wish to modify the genealogies of this place, please visit him.

 

 

 

Installation view, wood screen and two projections.Installation Views.

Still from Video. Field notes #1.

Still from Video. Field notes #1.

Still from Video. Field notes #1.

Installation view, wood screen side A. "The Possibility of a tree: the forgiver"

Installation view, wood screen side A, "The Possibility of a tree: the hair stylist".

Installation view, wood screen side A." "The Possibility of a tree: the murderer"

Installation view, wood screen side A. "The Possibility of a tree: the visual speaker and the cheater".

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BOOK Field notes #1.

VIDEO Field notes #2.

 

 

 

 

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