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“Do a little dance and become a tree.” Eugenio Ampudia’s instruction to the Art Fair goers seems quirkily amusing. However, the emergency that he is addressing could not be more urgent and serious.

Be a Tree Now! is a participatory movement that responds to the call for climate justice by using dance to dissolve the divide between humans and nature.

This initiative is motivated by the idea of the Biocene, an antidote to the unmistakable impact of the Anthropocene. The Biocene places at its center the care of life and all the fabric that sustains it and reevaluates the status of humans as equally interdependent beings as trees, as grass, microbes, or other life forms.
The participants are asked to think, represent, and see themselves as a tree by performing simple arm movements in front of a camera. The result is a moving multiple-exposure image resembling a tree's canopy. “Ultimately, I would like to create a forest with all the citizens that will participate in the action in the Philippines, that will demonstrate society's interest in resolving the climate crisis,” Ampudia hopes.

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