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Keynote lecture performance in the form of a cooking session in a kitchen about Puerto Rican food recepes. While cooking, the session included discussing and presenting images and videos regarding artistic research about tree nurseries in the context of hurricanes, reforestation, and hemispheric climate injustice. 

Keynote lecture performance about the form of reforestation as a transhemispheric, spiritually grounded practice – less a technical solution and more a ritual of relations. The performance took the form of a cooking session about Puerto Rican food recepes in the context of hurricanes and climate injustice.

This lecture performance is about the form of reforestation as a transhemispheric, spiritually grounded practice – less a technical solution and more a ritual of relations. Luis draws from work in Puerto Rico, Denmark, and Sweden, where tree nurseries are potent places for broad forms of Land-based learning and action. In these sites, communities tend damaged environments while reopening questions about nature’s personhood and how landscapes embody colonial trauma. Clay and ceramics serve as a key mediating materials, shaping mythological and meteorological forms such as the hurricane into social and sculptural forms that guide how we listen with the Land.Through four artworks rooted in the artistic research of treeling propagation – Estratas Viveros Entrañas (2022), Ensayo de cuna a Guatubá (2024), Refuge (since 2023), and Caudex (since 2023) – the lecture reflects on how forest geo-aesthetics and phenomenotechnics influence our sense of reality, of biodiversity, and of colonial trauma. These works trace care and collaboration across hemispheres as infrastructures that can question extractive forestry, market-led geoengineering, and the reproduction of colonial violence. Together, these installations display environmental re-mediation of forests (ie. as healing, as medium, and as revised messaging) as an invitation to another kind of worldmaking.