The Forest Social lecture series invites Luis Berríos Negrón to show and talk about video segments from his performance "Ensayo de cuna a Guataúba // Rehearsing a lullaby to the herald of woe". Berríos Negrón conceived and performed this unrehearsed artwork with participations from the Umeå Barockkör and Copenhagen-based performer and activist Felix Becker in collaboration with Future Forests.
The performance took place at Umeå Plant Science Wallenberg Lab in December 2024 and is a research output of Berríos Negrón's UmArts postdoctoral project "Of tree nurseries remediating the colonial memory of landscapes" (2023–2024). The performance complements a final installation and publication that will be presented later this year at Arboretum Norr with the support of Future Forests and Bildmuseet.
Luis Berríos Negrón is Associate professor at Umeå School of Architecture and researches the forms and forces of climate injustice through art and spatial practices.
A light lunch will be served for those who register. Register before 2 April.
What does the forest mean to us, to society and to our culture? The forest is a part of society, but society is also a part of the forest. What questions do we need to ask to better understand this relationship? These are some areas that this lecture series will try to highlight.
Forest Social is Future Forests’ lecture series for all students from SLU and Umeå University. It aims to inspire interdisciplinary perspectives on the forest and explore the relationships between forests and society. Researchers from arts, humanities and social sciences present their research.
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