"On Missing Trees"

Event Information

Under the Plane Tree, a live gathering "on Missing Trees" in the city of Utrecht is an invitation to participate in a conversation about the relation between people and trees. It is conceived as a joint inquiry, partly as a silent conversation. How do we become aware of the presence of trees, or their absence? What kind of language can we use to express this awareness?

Ryszard Kapucinski wrote : “I noticed .. the relationship between naming and being, because I realized ….. (that) I had seen only that which I was able to name……I understood, in short, that the more words I knew, the richer, fuller, and more variegated would be the world that opened before me, and which I could capture.”

We develop relationships with certain trees in particular. When trees are felled or dead or simply out of site they can be dearly missed. Some trees we carry within.

And how do we communicate with trees - would it be possible to think of 'tree-tongue' a kind of interspecies language? A conversation in person with artist Ienke Kastelein.

This event is related to last years online gathering on missing trees in Urban Tree Festival 2021

https://urbantreefestival.org/news/to-be-tree?rq=Ienke%20kastelein Blog 2020

https://urbantreefestival.org/to-be-tree Prompt 2020

https://urbantreefestival.org/missing-trees?rq=Missing%20  Missing Trees ( Zoom ) 2021

Contributors

Ienke Kastelein in is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in visual arts. In her projects, performances and walks she explores sensorial ways to engage with the world and her audience. The audience is simultaneously approached as participant and spectator. Her entire body of work is devoted to researching and reflecting on presence and presence itself. 

Ienke Kastelein studied Art History and Photography.

Some related projects: Walled Ground, a Free Zone for Seedlings / a path is made by walking with Hans van Lunteren for Hacking Habitat, Utrecht, Unmaking the Netherlands in Werkspoorkwartier Utrecht with Expodium, Four Walks along the River: upstream, downstream, west and east, Utrecht 2015 – 2019, Plant(e)scape Made of Walking Cyprus, Drifting Bodies/Fluent Spaces Made of Walking Guimaraes, she participated in Making Futures by Raumlabor in Berlin, Mind your Step, Zone2Source, Amsterdam, Walking with... 3 curated walks with Hans van Lunteren, Nikos Doulos, Wim van Sijl, and Zintuiglijk Wandelen, in Museum IJsselstein, Walking Time,  was part of the Urban Tree Festival with Missing Trees, developed walks for Renature Den Bosch 2021, The walk Zaailingen Zocher en de Zachte Stad for Botanical Revolution, Centraal Museum 2021/2. 

She is a visiting lecturer at Minerva Academy (Groningen), Master Corporeal Artez (Zwolle), BA Theatre and Master Scenography HKU (Utrecht). She lives and works in Utrecht, the Netherlands

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