(Re)learning tree-time
Losæter, Oslo, Norway | Spring & Autumn 2024
‘We are all grandchildren and we are all ancestors’, Julia Whaipooti, Maori lawyer & children’s rights campaigner.
‘I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past’, Maori proverb.
‘We do not inherit the land from our ancestors;
we borrow it from our children’, Apache saying.
‘trees teach us about life at the speed of wood.’
Richard Powers, novellist.
ARTWORKS
Video coming soon!
PERFORMANCE READING by Liselli Grunwald - ‘A brief encounter with tree-time’.
Excerpt from a series of texts and short stories (’Under the Silk Cotton Tree and other words’).
Based on own thoughts, research and workshop documentation.
Excerpt from a series of texts and short stories (’Under the Silk Cotton Tree and other words’).
Based on own thoughts, research and workshop documentation.
‘A brief encounter with tree-time’ - by Liselli Grunwald
Book excerpt from ’Under the Silk Cotton Tree and other words’
.Book excerpt from ’Under the Silk Cotton Tree and other words’
PERMANENT ART INSTALLATION ‘whittling time away’ - Zoe Jo Rae.
Urtealliansen Plot, Losæter, Oslo, NORWAY
Elm, 120x120x150cm. 2stk.
Designed by Zoe Jo Rae as part of the ‘whittling time away’ workshop held at Losæter in May 2024.
The whittling workshop involved a discussion around key topics and themes related to the project while whittling tree supports made from gathered branches of older trees. Participants were each whittling their own branche which were then assembled together to form on unit.
These tree supports will be used to support the young saplings to be planted during the tree-planting workshop in autumn.
This is a way to symbolise the generational changing of time, the passing on of knowledge from the older generation to the younger generation.
Urtealliansen Plot, Losæter, Oslo, NORWAY
Elm, 120x120x150cm. 2stk.
Designed by Zoe Jo Rae as part of the ‘whittling time away’ workshop held at Losæter in May 2024.
The whittling workshop involved a discussion around key topics and themes related to the project while whittling tree supports made from gathered branches of older trees. Participants were each whittling their own branche which were then assembled together to form on unit.
These tree supports will be used to support the young saplings to be planted during the tree-planting workshop in autumn.
This is a way to symbolise the generational changing of time, the passing on of knowledge from the older generation to the younger generation.
TEMPORARY ART INSTALLATION ‘tree-time flags’
Urtealliansen Plot, Losæter, Oslo, NORWAY
Participative artwork, cotton canvas bunting flags, natural inks and dyes (nettle, pine bark, aronia berries, reinfann, gulrandkjuke, cutch). 30 meters.
The bunting flags were made during the printing workshop held at Losæter in May 2024 and headed by Liselli Grunwald with the help of Francesca Tullio, Zoe Jo Rae and Eliana Vero.
The printmaking workshop involves printing on cotton canvas bunting flags, using found objects and natural dyes made from Losæter plants or surroundings. These flags will be used as decorations for the setting of the 90th birthday party event. The printing will be done blindfolded to force us, participants and collaborators, to rely on our other senses, such as smell and touch, to create art collectively.
The flags were used to decorate the setting of the ‘90th birthday’ dinner party event, also held at Losæter in May 2024. These will be donated to Losæter, should they wish to keep them, for future gatherings.
Urtealliansen Plot, Losæter, Oslo, NORWAY
Participative artwork, cotton canvas bunting flags, natural inks and dyes (nettle, pine bark, aronia berries, reinfann, gulrandkjuke, cutch). 30 meters.
The bunting flags were made during the printing workshop held at Losæter in May 2024 and headed by Liselli Grunwald with the help of Francesca Tullio, Zoe Jo Rae and Eliana Vero.
The printmaking workshop involves printing on cotton canvas bunting flags, using found objects and natural dyes made from Losæter plants or surroundings. These flags will be used as decorations for the setting of the 90th birthday party event. The printing will be done blindfolded to force us, participants and collaborators, to rely on our other senses, such as smell and touch, to create art collectively.
The flags were used to decorate the setting of the ‘90th birthday’ dinner party event, also held at Losæter in May 2024. These will be donated to Losæter, should they wish to keep them, for future gatherings.