The first chapter of botanical guides about trees often includes an attempt to define what a tree is, a task that ought to be entrusted to philosophers, according to the biologist Francis Hallé. Using a publication in the form of a portable slide show presentation, I present research into arboreal metaphors and put forward arguments as to why most are obsolete.

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This research is expanded without hierarchy between different theoretical studies in the field of the humanities  —Deleuze, Calvino, Dümpelmann— scientific research in the field of urban arboriculture —Wohlleben, Drénou, Hallé— and artistic representations where the tree has an special meaning —Perejaume, Abramović, McCarthy, etc. The publication format is inspired in the notebooks used by the “free tours” tourist guides. There are two ways to approach the book: as a reader —also reading the "presenter's notes"— or as an attendee at one of the presentations I performed— where only the images would be seen along with a free walking tour.

One of the interventions of the project during the residency at Konvent.0
Foto: Andrea Carilla