100Q

An improvised, site-specific public performance where I ask 99 questions to the tree and 1 question to you, where language is released without expectation of reply. The work is rooted in an uneven encounter between human thought and more-than-human presence, where the tree knows more than me, and knows in a way that does not require articulation. The performance also reflects on desire, jealousy, and distance in relation to the tree’s lifespan and material persistence, while my human self can not stop moving, climbing, playing and asking. The work is shaped by a relational mismatch between human language and arboreal time: one structured through urgency, self-reflection, and interruption, the other through continuity, growth, and non-response. The tree is both encountered as an environment and addressed as a listener.