Category: English

A pine to speak Swedish with near my childhood home on Drumsö grows at the en of Norrsvängen street near the small point with rocks and pine trees that I remembered and came to visit. The pine with low reaching branches was inviting me to sit on and to reminisce about childhood memories. A big… Continue reading A Pine on Drumsö

A new year and new pines: I ended up with an obvious choice, the two pine trees growing on the shore in Kaivopuisto park, with Harakka Island in the background, are a landmark familiar to many people. And there is a boulder to sit on during conversations next to them. With the help of these… Continue reading With the Pines in 2024

During the year 2023 I have visited a pine tree in Kaivopuisto Park in Helsinki once or twice a month and recorded a conversation in English with the pine on video. The soundtrack I have also made into an episode on the podcast Talking with Trees. I have adressed the pine for other purposes as… Continue reading Last pondering with the pine in the park

A week in Örö at the end of November 2023 provided a chance to remember my first visit to the island for the Öres residency in November 2020. I visited some of the pine trees I performed with then, or on later trips, and they are all introduced on a separate page on this same… Continue reading A Reunion with the Örö Pines

I have found a new pine tree to collaborate with up on the cliff in Fredhäll on Kungsholmen in Stockholm, right next to the motorway Essingeleden. The pine is small and chubby unlike the other pines in the area, which are tall and sturdy, so part of the crown can fit in the image, and… Continue reading By Essingeleden

Not many pines in Mazzano Romano, no, but plenty of all kinds of trees in the lush Treja valley. During the first part of my visit, in July, I spoke daily with a pine tree in the old town, below the main square, and recorded by brief ‘ponderings’ on the RC, see With the Pine(s)… Continue reading Goodbye Treja

Or actually the 28th Performance Studies international conference Uhambo Luyazilawula: Embodied Wandering Practices 2-5 2023 August in Johannesburg. The image above is of a pine tree, possibly a Mexican Weeping Pine (Pinus patula), outside Wits Theatre on the campus of University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, the host institution. My main contribution was supposed to be Day… Continue reading PSi #28 Uhambo

Accra, the capital of Ghana in West Africa is near the equator, and I did not expect to find pine trees here, did not bother looking for them, not even in the Botanical Garden on campus, but of course you never know. They probably would not survive among the lush vegetation, though. Most pines need… Continue reading No Pines in Accra

The area near Rome should be full of pines, the iconic stone pines (Pinus pinea) familiar from postcards and paintings. And sure, on the way I saw quite a few of them. In Mazzano, however, they are scarce. There are cypresses, spruces and all kind of flowering trees. And in the Treja river valley and… Continue reading Looking for Pines in Mazzano

My yearly ’enforced summer holiday’ is over for now, that is, I’m finished with my time as gallery sitter for the exhibition Pondering with Pines in the Telegraph Gallery on Harakka Island. This year the weather has been lovely, warm and sunny. The geese and the seagulls and the other nesting birds have calmed down;… Continue reading In the Telegraph Gallery

On 27 May I performed “Männylle” (To the pine) on Harakka Island as part of the event NOMADIC ACADEMY OF EXPERIMENTAL ARTS PRESENTS: Impossible week: Analogy and magic. The documentation is available here. The spell was in Finnish while the end with a blues harp was nonverbal. I have continued my pondering with a pine in… Continue reading To the Pine

That was the title of my presentation at the SAR (Society for Artistic Research) conference Too early – Too late in Trondheim, Norway, on 19-21 April, see conference website. The material related to my contribution is available online here. I also participated in a conversation about urgent issues related to the development of JAR (Journal… Continue reading Is it too late to start talking with trees?