Evelien Cammaert invites us to gather around a wooden table with one simple question – one whose answer we carry in our pockets. Over the course of an hour, she guides us into the practice of (re)composing memories. As we share these recollections, new branches emerge, taking on a life of their own. Memories shift and soften; old photographs become new aesthetic experiences to offer back to the world.
Trees and Memories opens the archive not as a static repository of the past, but as fertile soil for transformation and renewal.
The performance grows from Cammaert’s broader research practice, Archival Branches, which explores the multilayered roles and resonances of artists’ archives. Questioning the dominant Western and institutional logics of preservation, this research takes form as a rhizomatic structure — a living network that allows multiple outcomes, presentations, and collaborations to emerge and intertwine.
Please bring your (charged) smartphone to the performance.
