Creating Forest. Art, Science, Technology & animals nature
Crear bosques [Creating Forests] is a participative art action. A living monument and an architectural society coupled with the passing of time which seeks to create a large global forest connecting all those already existing, through the sponsorship of trees.
It all started with a video-installation which, filling the function of a green house, invited people to fill in a form to sponsor a tree. This action produced a transfer from the urban setting to the natural environment, and in so doing fused apparently hostile realities. Following through on those initial parameters, crear bosques has become a far-reaching global action which, by means of networking and activism, wishes to create guidelines for dialogue and action: in short, individual engagement as a form of politics or eco-politics. Another of its principles is to work with a resource economy in order to turn the process into a growing relational node from the technological perspective of networking, outreach and sustainable growth.
Project Management: Carmen Cantón
Coproduction: EMULSA-Empresa Municipal de Servicios de Medio Ambiente Urbano de Gijón S.A.
Organization: Crear bosques & Centro de Arte Ego
Curator: Lucia Antonini
Collaboration: MAV-Mujeres en las Artes Visuales, FAPAS-Fondo para la Protección de los Animales Salvajes, Space Invaders, Guerrilla Girls

For more information:www.crearbosques.org