A Tree: A Reader on Arboreal Kinship

Synopsis

A Tree: A Reader on Arboreal Kinship brings together artistic practices and research that explore the relationships between people and trees. The contributors consider vegetal agency, plant knowledge, and the ways trees shape landscapes, climates, ecologies, and human imagination.

Moving through art, music, storytelling, poetry, and images, the book invites readers to think differently about “tree time”—the vast timescales on which trees live and change. Its intimate, speculative, and queer approaches to arboreal kinship encourage new ways of relating to the more-than-human world while questioning anthropocentrism, capitalism, individualism, heteronormativity, and coloniality.

About the Author

Marjolein van der Loo is an editor and curator whose work explores art, ecology, and relationships between humans and the more-than-human world. She edited A Tree and brings together contributions from artists, writers, researchers, and other practitioners.

Contributors include Joss Allen, Céline Baumann, Bárbara Sánchez Barroso, Jorge Menna Barreto, Renée Bus, Lucy Davis, Amirio Freeman, Manjot Kaur, Karen Lofgren, Anne Richter, Jerrold Saija, Oscar Salguero, Jonmar van Vlijmen, and Müge Yilmaz, among others.

Publisher

Onomatopee

Publication Date

July 15, 2025

Format

Paperback

Pages

128

Subjects

Art & Ideas · Art & Ecology · Trees & Forests · Environmental Humanities · Queer Ecology · Plant Studies · Contemporary Art

ISBN

9789493382077