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WALNUT RESEARCH PROJECT
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From the perspective of contemporary environmental arts, & integrating a
molecular genetics approach to mapping tree families,

This project aims to explore the agential growth –generation by generation – of black walnut trees along and across the borders between the UW Madison Arboretum and the surrounding built landscapes. 

The project posits that obligations & opportunities to care about and to care for the land in the contemporary moment do not end at the border fence that draws a property-relations line around the Arboretum, 

recognizing that more-than-human world-making extends over, under and through these borders. Taking the construction of the conservation park as an aesthetic and ecological visual cultural form, this art project visualizes the permeability and transience of the border. 




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transborders/plantwise

is the winner of the inaugural

Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW Madison CHE Art and the Environment Award





This work is concerned with ethical relations to land in all of the complexities of the contemporary moment. This land is the unceded territory of the Ho Chunk people, who have always been here and who will always be. This art and research does not in any way accomplish, nor even attempt to, a kind of restoration of ethical relations to each other or to land as living system. This work is a step in the direction of thinking towards undoing settler relations to land as property, rather than as living and agential.

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO

Jake Brunkard Lab
Rory Greenhalgh