FRIEK Artwork & Events

Walking-based Strategies for Public Engagement

Matthew Jensen / United States — A walk among Paris urban forest revolving around street tree love, facts, pictures and…

Nature and Cities: A Balancing Act

Kevin Reese / United States — Explore the “missing pieces” in the balance between nature and cities. Participants will…

Black Tea Ceremony for Green Cities

Soraya Hamlaoui / France & Patrick M. Lydon / United States — Finding power in word and tea, we enter…

World Tree Map

Frida Larios / El Salvador — A truly collective action in which everyone is invited to collaborate by painting,…

Street Art for Greener Cities

Valerie Gwinner / Kenya — What can we do with this unique collection to promote advocacy, community, and green…

Environmental Beatboxing

3’z / France — A physicist and beatboxer initiates a series of happenings, beatboxing and creating spoken word poetry as…

Water: Multi-Species Migration and Displacement

Robin Lasser, Marguerite Perret & Bruce Scherting / United States — A collaborative installation responding to the environmental, social, personal,…

FRIEK Semiotic Happenings

FRIEK Curatorial Team — Ongoing collaborative production of banners, posters, signs, and performative gestures, borrowing from protest and activist aesthetics.

FRIEK Urban Nature Library

FRIEK Curatorial Team — An open source library and reading space with an ongoing expanse of quotes culled from conference…

The Daily FREIK: A Summit Arts Journal

Patrick M. Lydon & Carmen Bouyer United States & France — A daily journal of radical art-based responses to The Nature…

The City Re-scripted: A Writing Workshop

Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro / France — Participants from all backgrounds join an experiment in radical storytelling. Using materials ranging from science-fiction…

Signaling Water: Google DADA Haiku Flags

Robin Lasser, Marguerite Perret & Bruce Scherting / United States — Participants will work in teams to create a Haiku…

The Literary Pharmacopoeia

Soraya Hamlaoui / France — A project based on the idea that we can take care of what is alive…

Dancing with the Environment

Nadia Vadori Gauthier / France — Through experimental dance practices, choreographer Nadia will use dance as a catalyst for sharing…

The Art of Trees and Plants Meditation

Emilio Fantin / Italy — The relationship between art and nature. From Leonardo to Fukuoka. The aesthetics of germination and…

Bushel

FRIEK Curatorial Team — Part ecological remediation (atoning for the ills requisite of an international summit), part participatory installation.

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?

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.