ENTS, Some of you should remember Karl Cronin http://www.karlcronin.com/ He posted some messages last winter concerning the respiration processes in plants. I received a copy of his newsletter yesterday updating subscribers about his current activities. Karl is an artist and dancer from New York City. Currently he is Artist-In_Residence at the Santé Fe Art Institute (NM). I wanted to pass parts of his message to the group as part of my ongoing effort to expose group members to some different means of relating to trees artistically. Karl is producing a series of short videos in which he is using Body Movement and Dance to try to capture the essence of different trees, plants, and animals. http://dryearth.org/ He writes: " I make art that begins and ends with the body and its interface with the earth. In the middle it wanders through presence meditations, improvisation, scored memory dances, performance rituals, and cross-disciplinary research." I certainly would not consider myself an aficionado of experimental dance, but these efforts are interesting and thought provoking. The goal is to inspire others to explore the relationships between man and nature, Each of you should check out the videos with an open mind and see for yourself.
I have set up shop at the Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), where I will be an Artist-in-Residence through the end of November. The open sky has inspired me to begin a lifelong dream of mine: The creation of a somatic natural history archive of the USA. Following in the tradition of our country's pioneering naturalists (Audubon, Muir, Leopold), this archive will be a movement-based, living history of the biodiversity of the USA. Each day I spend time with a different plant or animal species, creating a performance tableau that I can then share with others. This project will begin with Series 1 - the embodied history of 10,000 plants and animals. I estimate it will take me 60 years to complete Series 1 (for my fellow long-term planning nerds, I am indeed drafting a succession plan for Series 2). The archive will emphasize endangered/threatened/keystone species, as it is likely, albeit gravely alarming, that many of these species will not survive the completion of Series 1. Check out my field VIDEOS - http://www.vimeo.com/album/127120 and join me for a free public Offering - http://www.karlcronin.com/offerings.html Karl is on Facebook for those of you there also. He is the Creator of the Dry Earth Group on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=709156957&v=info&ref=profile#/group.php?gid=44073017297 with 147 members That is the name of his newsletter as well. See also his Earth Tattoo Project http://earthtattoo.wordpress.com/ Karl could use some help from some of you with tree expertise. In an email to me he wrote that he had not been able to identify the trees he worked with in Harvest #26 video clip http://www.vimeo.com/6919975 So can anyone identify the tree species? Ed Frank "Oh, I call myself a scientist. I wear a white coat and probe a monkey every now and then, but if I put monetary gain ahead of preserving nature...I couldn't live with myself." - Professor Hubert Farnsworth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
