LISELLI
FOREST LIBRARY & SOUNDWORK
INSTALLATION & SOUNDWORK (2024)
Fallen Forscythia branches & Lilac bush branches,
re-used Pine tree stumps, carpets,
books from preliminary research.
re-used Pine tree stumps, carpets,
books from preliminary research.
An installation and soundwork expressing the intra-connectivity between non-human, human, man-made and natural bodies. An intra-connectivity evoking the reciprocal exchange of knowledge happening within a holistic context.
RITUALS TALKING DECOLOGY is an ongoing research project that looks at generational knowledge through Decology as a way to question the systemic racist, colonial and anthropocenic paradigms in today’s Norwegian society. With the hybrid lens of an immigrant, mixed-race mother and person of colour, living in Norway, I question these paradigms and engage with a public similar to my own hybrid context, through a series of ritual-workshops, developed over the last few years.
Tree Witches: Collective Rituals joint exhibition with artist Marie Cole & artist-architect Mimmi Koponen, Galleri Seilduken 2, Oslo, NO (october 2024).
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
IN BOOKFORM
IN BOOKFORM
INSTALLATION (2024)
Re-used cotton canvas, Reinfann ink, Pine bark ink, Nettle ink, Rødrandkjukke ink, found Plain tree leaves, Beech leaves,
organic orange wool thread, text.
This larger-than-life book installation was also used as a stage for a performance reading during the Vernissage of the exhibition.
Extract from Text:
‘Forest Library. Periods of transition. Rituals that we’re initiated to from nature that we’re not aware of. Which ones. ‘we all have forests in our minds’. What does your forest look like? And also what’s a forest library. A library of thoughts and memories. A space of intersubjective communication with, and between, humans and more-than-humans. A space where ritual formulas open to other worlds. Il etait une fois. Yekrik! Yekrak! Lemme tell yuh sometin’. That (communication) is ‘primary orality: a relationship of speakers and listeners’. A community. Ritual (noun): a meaningful act, done with awareness, that is repeated cyclically. This from my own (forest) personal dictionary. Ritual (noun): symbolic acts that pass on and represent the values & orders in which a community is based. Paraphrased from philosopher Byung-Chul Han.’
Tree Witches: Collective Rituals joint exhibition with artist Marie Cole & artist-architect Mimmi Koponen, Galleri Seilduken 2, Oslo, NO (october 2024).
THE GUARDIAN OF THE FOREST
INSTALLATION &
COLLABORATIVE BOOK (2023-ongoing)
Fallen Lichen, organic neutral wool thread,
concertina artist book, fallen twigs, light.
An installation inspired by the research of the Guardian of the Forest ongoing project. It aims to collectively challenge the current extractive notions seen in the way certain humans relate to Norwegian forests, through stories.
In answer to an open call, stories relating to the Guardian of the Forest character (seen in various folk stories from various cultures around the world) were published first as a concertina artist book, then as a first volume of short stories. The concertina artist book became part of the installation while the volume of short stories is the first of an ongoing collective story-making workshop project, in collaboration with various publics related to the Norwegian forests of today.