FRIEK is an artist-initiated, transdisciplinary platform at the Nature of Cities Summit
2019 June 4–7 at Sorbonne University (Jussieu Campus), Paris, France
FRIEK Artwork & Events
World Tree Map
Nature and Cities: A Balancing Act
Bushel
FRIEK Urban Nature Library
Dancing with the Environment
Water: Multi-Species Migration and Displacement
Signaling Water: Google DADA Haiku Flags
The City Re-scripted: A Writing Workshop
Black Tea Ceremony for Green Cities
Environmental Beatboxing
Walking-based Strategies for Public Engagement
Street Art for Greener Cities
The Literary Pharmacopoeia
The Art of Trees and Plants Meditation
The Daily FREIK: A Summit Arts Journal
FRIEK Semiotic Happenings
What (is) the FRIEK?
The Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Knowledge (FRIEK) is a transdisciplinary platform for arts-based exhibits, actions, and methodologies, taking place within the Nature of Cities Summit in Paris, France. Attentive to the urban landscape, and partnering with diverse human and non-human companions, FRIEK challenges the framework of established knowledge, allowing new ideas for sustaining cities to be generated in collaboration between disciplines and species.
Who (is) the FRIEK?
Curatorial team
- Carmen Bouyer (France)
www.carmenbouyer.com - Patrick M. Lydon (United States & Japan)
www.pmlydon.com - Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro (France)
Participating artists
- 3’z (France)
- Emilio Fantin (Italy)
- Nadia Vadori Gauthier (France)
- Matthew Jensen (United States)
- Frida Larios (El Salvador)
- Robin Lasser (United States)
- Mary Miss (United States)
- Marguerite Perret (United States)
- Kevin Reese (United States)
- Bruce Scherting (United States)
FRIEK is produced with financial support from The Nature of Cities and Arts Everywhere / Musagetes Foundation, and in-kind logistical support from City as Nature.