MASTER PROJECT

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The Collective Tree-Ship Rituals  
The Collective Tree-Ship Rituals is a series of workshops and artworks centered on letter-writing and discussion as a ritual for decolonizing the experiences of a mixed person of colour, through an ecological perspective. It is a physical manifestation of the current phase of the research project RITUALS TALKING DECOLOGY which looks at the workshop as a specific participatory and ritual practice and how this can bring about emancipatory healing processes to and for racially and culturally mixed people (hybrids). This decolonial approach will be looked at through an ecological lens, likening human decolonial processes with decolonizing the physical ecology of the planet we live on, and towards a sustainable future of climate justice and political justice, social justice and economical justice. 

The workshops in The Collective Tree-Ship Rituals are rituals: flat-structured knowledge sharing spaces for grounding, through a collective action that recurs in time. This knowledge comes from the participants but also the non-human surroundings, man-made and natural, that are within these spaces, and moves towards a collective knowledge unique to that space.  

The main workshop ritual that will be focused on will be letter-writing as ritual. Participants are invited to write a letter to a person in the past who has made a positive impact on them, thanking them for the knowledge they have imparted/shared with them. Participants are then invited to write a second letter, this time from the perspective of a person in the future, writing to the participant, thanking them for the knowledge they have imparted/shared with them. A discussion facilitated by myself (and potential collaborators) will follow.


NEW FOLLOW-UP MOODBOARD (older moodboard further down) november 24- inspiration from artists

HØST SEMESTER REVIEW ARTIST BOOK
tentative digital collage testing with text and pictures


MA Final - spring 2025 - inside KHIO exhibition - november 24
- repeat of the Seilduken forest library space of interactive installation(s), some elements of the Tree-ship exhibition in the installation? almost like a set? materials: paper,  textiles, string/rope, books, hanging branches/plants, lighting.
- communication capsules of the ‘Tree-ship rituals’ and RITUALS TALKING DECOLOGY research project.

artworks  - ideas
-roll of scroll/parchment with drawings/sketches/text of the rituals (and an empty part that’s only for children to fill in? also as a way to keep them distracted??)
- interactive ‘stream of consciousness book’ like in the Seilduken exhibition (but with pages that people can ‘turn’, they just rotate on themselves)
- film based on constellation 1 rituals
- artist book from year 1
- artist book of collection of thoughts (høst semester  24) with soundwork and short animated test  
-  collection of thoughts publication (which will also be in the ‘stream of consciousness in bookform’ artwork
is it understood that these rituals are collective? 

should the collectivity be emphasized?
MA Final - spring 2025 - outside KHIO exhibition - oct/nov 24
TREE-SHIP RITUALS - see link to Tree Ship text
The Tree-Ship Collective Rituals is a physical manifestation of the current phase of the research project RITUALS TALKING DECOLOGY,  I have defined this particular ecological approach to decoloniality as ‘decology’ which speaks about decolonizing from an ecological context but more importantly incorporates an active movement towards sustainable futures exemplified in Donna Haraway’s Chtulucene and Malcom Ferdinand’s World-Ship. Both proposed movements speak to interconnectivity across species through becoming-with, grounding with the other and our surroundings while accounting for racial, class, gender discrimination (and acknowledging that that interconnectivity across species was also there before the ongoing colonial project).  

I want to explore together with other hybrids how discussion practiced on a ritual basis can achieve ‘decology’: I want to make the point that communicating and sharing knowledge on a ritual basis within our human species, across species and together with other bodies (man-made and natural), situated on this planet, is one way to move towards sustainable futures that encompasses social, economical, political and environmental equity, justice and spirituality. Lastly, I want to explore what that communication and knowledge-sharing entails.  

How do hybrids, human and non-human, living bodies and not, experience colonialism? How can we heal from this and how can we decologise our thought and behavioural patterns towards each other (human, non-human, inert bodies) and our surroundings, through communication and knowledge-sharing rituals?

The term the workshop is defined as a space for lateral-structured knowledge sharing with other human and non-human bodies, and a space of rituals where the workshop exists in relation to time. I define rituals as actions that are done with awareness (grounding) repeated in a cyclical time-frame.

This project aims to explore the emancipatory processes involved in healing the experiences of a specific demographic using the workshop as a specific participatory and ritual practice, from an ecological perspective.

This specific demographic will entail the following constellations:  

• Constellation 1 

This group of people involves my sisters and I unpacking our experiences as french-trinbagonian women of colour growing up in France and Trinidad. This unpacking is done through ritual discussions done online, and letter-writing via a notebook that we send to each other, thus building up on letters written to each other.  

• Constellation 2 

This group of people involves a group of four mothers, with a Caribbean and European background, who live in Norway or in the Nordics. These workshops are not as yet defined as the group needs to be confirmed, but ritual discussion will be a main focus.  

• Constellation 3 

This third constellation is a broader group of people with various racial and cultural backgrounds and will only focus on letter-writing. These workshops will take place at Linderud Gård.
tentative artwork ideas - september 24
forest pop-up library in the forest / under a tree (?)
- connecting knowledge of trees (or knowledge of forests) with knowledge in libraries, and with knowledge of visitors, spectators, performers (?): ELABORATE ON THIS!
- work with an existing library regarding this (Nesodden library?)? or botanical gardens? ‘Botanical gardens’ library’?Linderud Gård?
- a space for performances, workshops, readings
- installation element: take the library to the forest. a library under a very old tree. work with urtealliansen and their ‘what can we learn from trees’ ethos and visualise it?
- learning collectively through exchange and discussion, collective reading, collective writing, can we do this on a cyclical basis? how would that shape our understanding of yesterday, today and tomorrow, as individuals and as communities?

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- why we make art and why we share it?  (learning mind experience into art, mary jane jacobs + jacquelynn baas)
- Forest Library, what’s the link between forests and libraries (paper, imagination growing and developing, planting a seed for an idea to  germinate, knowledge in libraries and knowledge in forests)

- INSIDE KHIO EXHIBITION: communication capsules, films, publications  still within a created/scenographised space (maybe a repeat of the Seilduken forest library as a communication space for the outside khio exhibition?)

BEGINNING OF MOODBOARD september 24