01/03/2025, GATHERING
Luis Berríos-Negrón (San Juan, 1971*) is a Puerto Rican environmental artist and experimental architect. He is concerned with decolonising the forms and forces of global warming and climate injustice. His recent post-doc at UmArts / Umeå University is titled 'Of tree nurseries...' (2023-24, to be presented in August 2025). It is a continuation to his recent long-term arts research residency hosted by Para La Naturaleza at their national post-hurricane reforestation project of Puerto Rico (2021-22), and from his PhD dissertation titled 'Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures' (Konstfack Collection 2020).
Date - March 1st 2025 | 01.03.2025
Time - 4PM CET to 6PM CET
Location - Hårbøllevej 52A | 4792 Askeby.
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Join us on this first day of spring as architect and artist Luis Berríos Negrón will open and host a communal conversation on refuges and tree nursing within the conjoined contexts of Puerto Rico and Scandinavia as a way to prepare the grounds for his artistic contribution to Fanefjord Commons as part of Hosting Lands.
The chat will be motivated by asking permission to the Land - to make geomagnetic readings of possible spaces, to talk about digging mud, and clay, and ceramics as geological raw materials. We will talk about how to shape forgotten imaginaries of natural forms and forces, on Møn and in Hårbølle, and across the Atlantic, on Puerto Rico.
The conversation will be hosted by Luis Berríos Negrón along with the artist collective PDAS, and with featured remote participations from Puerto Rico by renowned artist and ceramist Toni Hambleton, and by the sculpture and land art duo Jaime & Javier Suárez.
The conversation will be in English, and afterwards we will serve a light, vegetarian dinner and invite everyone to stay and hang out.
Hoping to see both new and familiar faces for an intimate and informal conversation on belonging and refuge.
Image credit - Linoleum stamp etching on the state public education manual for hurricane preparedness “¿Qué sabemos del Huracán? (What do we know about the hurricane?)” illustrated by Isabel Bernal, Rafael Tufiño, Carlos Raquel Rivera, et al., 1958.