We, Trees | WORKSHOP

Date :

Sunday, 12 Mai 2024, 12:30 am to 3:30 pm
We, Trees | WORKSHOP (in English)
under the direction of Nina Sumarac as part of the Upper Bavaria residency program

Pre-registration by e-mail to Isabel.oberlaender@bezirk-oberbayern.de
Free participation

We, Trees workshop is a main part of the creative development process of the collective project I’ll See You in The Trees initiated by Nina Sumarac. This workshop aims to encourage people to reengage with nature through various practices which inspire reflection, imagination and channelling, modelled on the life of trees. This synthesis aims to bridge our growing disconnect from nature, resulting in most recently from the pandemic, the virtual world and urbanization. By “transplanting participants” into the oldest community of beings and amplifying new pathways of thinking towards bringing the senses back into balance. These guided sessions will provide deeper insights into how the project I’ll See You in The Trees was constructed, as participants engage in the creative process and by embodying its continuity.

Part I:

Using practices that focus on movement, breathwork and mindfulness, participants will play up the parallels between their own lives and how trees live, while considering the anatomical attributes of trees.
Duration: 15-20 min

Part II:

After grounding, bringing awareness and establishing connection with (our) presence (in) of nature, the participants will be asked to further open their senses and within silence walk around the garden, observe carefully trees in the garden (by watching, touching, smelling, hugging…, establishing connection, recording, memorizing).
Duration: 15-20 min

Part III

In the second part of the workshops, Nina built on the perspectives developed in part one by asking participants to illustrate their innermost selves-trees. For the drawings will be used paper, burned wood (charcoal) and branches as an extension of human hands.
Duration: 2 hours

I'll See You in The Trees
(four channel video and sound installation)

Inspired by Angelo Badalamenti and David K. Lynch's lyrics 'Sycamore Trees', work I'll See You in the Trees is a comparative study of people and trees, which explores humanity and its complexities within the context of nature, thus forging a path to self-realization, in a bid to convey dynamic connectivity, which neutralizes bias while initiating empathy and compassion. It is these deep personal insights, which the artist has forested into a collective digital plantation of selves/trees that offers viewers a truly polyphonous experience. Re-establishing this symbiotic connection is an attempt at saving trees and people simultaneously since both are under threat.

More information about the project: https://www.ninasumarac.com/illseeyouinthetrees

more about the artist:

Nina Sumarac