If A Tree Falls

«If A Tree Falls,» is a speculative research project and a series of multimedia works that explore the convoluted relationality and innate connotation between identity, nature, and political imagination by examining the tree as a delegate of nature and a historical, rhetorical, mythological, and contested entity and life form, as well as a more-than-human witness.

The research title draws inspiration from the philosophical thought experiment: 'If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?' Which operates as another layer of the research and a metaphoric point of departure from which my research will utilize the physics and metaphysics of perception as an apparatus for reflection on the question of identity and freedom in convoluted political imagination, exploring the nature/culture divide and interpreting nature as an extension of culture production.

Through mixing the scientific with the philosophical and mythical by deploying a method of critical analysis over such context and location, and explore the role of nature in culture production and our contested relationship with it, whether by its depiction or erasure through a more-than-human perspective.