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. Current post-doc is titled 'Of tree nurseries...' and is continuation to a recent long-term research residency with at the national post-hurricane reforestation project of Puerto Rico (Para La Naturaleza 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. Google Maps - Location 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 by artists and ceramists Toni Hambleton, and Jaime & Javier Suárez in Puerto Rico. 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.