Minding Niimi/Imagination/Imaging
When and Where
Description
Live-streamed into the world from Turtle Island, Canada, UK, Germany and Latvia.
A wood-wide web digital theatre in the round on inter-actions and politics between humans and trees
Moderator: Rasa Smite, Atmospheric Forests. RIXC. The Center for Art and Science, Riga.
Creators: Digital Dramaturgy Labsquared and friends.
Project Description
In collaboration with Be-Coming Tree, a women-artist led global initiative, in a show & tell format, The Digital Dramaturgy Labsquared and friends are presenting artistic and performative projects exploring our relationship-making with trees at intersections of de-colonializing politics, arts and science.
Program
- Niimi (s/he dances) 4 iterations. By Digital Dramaturgy Labsquared collaborators Candy Blair, Antje Budde, Jill Carter, Lars Crosby, Nina Czegledy, Dave Kemp, Karyn McCallum, Don Sinclair. In memory of co-creator Astad Deboo (died Nov.10, 2020)
- The Tree, The Machine and Me. By Julia Campbell-Such, wood worker and art conservator. (in collaboration with Carey Jernigan)
- Wood. Water. Metal. (Bois. Eau. Métal.). By Gisèle Trudel & Ælab, media artist and research chair
TICKETS (all donated to the re-forestation of the Amazon rain forests)
Live-performed/live-streamed on YouTube.