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Artwork: Human-Tree-Machine Exhibited: ArtZone, Roskilde Festival Collaboration: Andreas Refsgaard, Martin Malthe Borch, Elena Lundqvist Ortíz, Naja Ryde Ankarfeldt, André Hansen, Kasper Holm, Line Kjær Curated by: Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology for ArtZone Supported by: Roskilde Festival Year: 2017 Links: https://www.labae.org/multispecies-festivities

Human-Tree-Machine was a multidisciplinary and multispecies installation crafted by a chestnut tree, an artist, an AI programmer, engineers, a writer, moss, bark, computers, sensors, snails, a curator and the weather.

During the festival, Human-Tree-Machine was visited by festival goers whom would be invited to chat with a nearby chestnut tree, assisted by AI programming and sensors in order to respond in human language. Human-Tree-Machine asked what would a tree say to us if we asked the right questions, and what would we even ask a tree? How can we translate what we think we know about trees into english? What would it mean to create a Human-Tree encounter in the middle of a busy and buzzing festival site?
Text: Elena Lundqvist Ortiz




With this programme, we wanted to ask what happens when species meet at Roskilde Festival? What sort of bodies, languages and senses are confronted (and colliding) when the wakes of the few days of festivities mark their imprint into the land? We are interested in working with the different cycles at stake in and around the festival and ask how we can investigate - and not least creatively attempt to work with - some of the potentially problematic impact on the site’s non-human residents.  Text: Elena Lundqvist Ortiz