Luis Berríos Negrón and collaborators will present the installation and performance titled Caudex at Arboretum Norr, located in the neighbourhood of Baggböle in Umeå. All are welcome!
Caudex stages rudimentary tree nursing as an act of listening and speaking with treelings. The work is part of Luis’ UmArts postdoctoral project "Of tree nurseries and remediating the colonial memory of landscapes", where he investigates tree nurseries between Puerto Rico, Denmark, and Sweden. The research looks at how tree nursing gives form and personhood to alternative imaginaries that sidestep past and future colonial histories of landscape and of geoengineering. Luis is a Puerto Rican environmental artist and experimental architect, serving as associate professor at the Arkitekthögskolan.
The event will be part of Arboretets Dag, hosted by the staff and friends of Arboretum Norr and is supported by Future Forests seed funding
Please visit Arboretum Norr's website for guidance to Baggböle.
Image: video capture of forest mouse singing with the treelings during "Lullaby to the herald of woe", by Luis Berríos Negrón on 2 December 2024 at the Wallenberg Lab UPSC.
