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What an Oak Needs

2020

Reaction to «7000 Oaks» by Joseph Beuys as part of a collective project dedicated to Beuys’ legacy.

Performative project, inciting to shift one’s identity while collecting acorns and planting oak trees. What are the needs of a young tree? What are the conditions for its embryo to transform into a young oak? How much attention can we spare to this type of activity today? Collecting acorns while visiting the existing great-grand-oaks, a group discussed the details and techniques of care, creation of micro-community for storytelling sessions: oak introspection. What are the chances for the newly planted oaks to reach the 2020 level of those planted during documenta 7 back in the 1980s?