the singing tree // det syngende treet
(2021-Ongoing) • Public Art, Sound Installation, Biodata Sonification & Social Practice
Commissions: Bydel Gamle Oslo, Miniøya Festival (Oslo, Norway), and Paris (France)
The Inquiry
How can we make our profound relationship to city spaces, collective play, and urban ecology completely undeniable? This public art installation translates the hidden internal life-frequencies of nature into tactile, audible community interactions, allowing trees to literally speak and sing through biodata.
Practice-Based Research as a Site of Care
This project operates as an international participatory ecosystem that connects people back to earth-systems and ancestral lines. Most recently, the project returned to my ancestral soil in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as part of Interdependent Indigenous Ecologies,The Singing Tree // Bush Medicine Garden via a collaboration with The Hub Collective . By taking a tool first developed in European urban festivals and embedding it in Caribbean community ecology, the work acts as an active decolonial methodology for tracking water, memory, and botanical lineages.
Det Syngende Treet / The Singing Tree
Installation, sound + social practice,
Paris, France + Miniøya festival, Oslo, Norway.
2023
listen to tracks recorded live at Miniøya, Oslo, Norway in 2023