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Trees and Landlords and Other Public Experiments: An Interview with Natalie Jeremijenko

  • Susie Pratt (author)
Chapter of: Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World(pp. 213–220)

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TitleTrees and Landlords and Other Public Experiments
SubtitleAn Interview with Natalie Jeremijenko
ContributorSusie Pratt (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0207.1.18
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/covert-plants/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightPratt, Susie
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2018-09-11
Long abstractIn 2012, while I was an art medic-in-residence at the Environmen-tal Health Clinic in New York, the director of the Clinic, Nata-lie Jeremijenko, showed me her designs for a co-working office space in a tree. The plans were still in the early stages, but what caught my attention was her articulation of how a tree would be set up as the landlord of the office. The rent people paid for us-ing the co-working space would be put in the service of its own interests, for example to improve soil quality or for companion planting. The TREExOFFICE, as she called it, was to be installed in Socrates Sculpture Park as part of the exhibition Civic Ac-tion — this was the first of many iterations of this intervention. I was curious to talk with Natalie to find out how the project had evolved. What is it like to have a tree as a landlord? How did tenants behave? How can a tree engage a community to serve it’s own and collective interests? How can public experiments, such as TREExOFFICE, help to re-imagine and re-design our re-lationship to natural systems?
Page rangepp. 213–220
Print length8 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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