TreeSpeech

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Check out our video sum up of the project. Thanks to Brian Bolanowski for the beautiful video and all participants: Milcah, Brendan, Liz, John, and all the trees!

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“Her recent project, #TreeSpeech (of which I’m a participant) plays with the question of perspective directly. For this work, Percoco solicited city residents to tweet on behalf of a neighborhood tree. In adopting the non-human point of view, Percoco is encouraging participants in what she calls a “whimsical experiment in empathy.” There are dozens of tree/human chimeras tweeting around the city, discussing issues of ecology and environment, neighborhood gossip, in addition to raising awareness of the city’s tree canopy.And that canopy includes weed trees like ailanthus altissima. 

According to opentreemap.org, a site used to catalog trees (including the participants in TreeSpeech), there are over 2,000 of these trees in Hudson County, NJ. The number may be much higher, as reporting is incomplete. The county is also home to 660,000 human residents.”

by Emily Helck

Ruralie.com

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Matt Friedman gives a shout out to Tree Speech in Politico!

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This summer, the trees of Jersey City are taking to twitter. Environmental artist Anne Percoco is assigning Twitter accounts to Jersey City trees and recruiting residents to tweet, in the first person, from the trees’ perspectives. These “tree stories” will start a citywide conversation about expanding and maintaining the City’s deficient tree canopy. Directed by Brian Bolanowski Starring Elise and Brian

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Tree Speech Scene 2 directed by Brian Bolanowski, starring Jennifer Rachener and Dexter!

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Americans for the Arts shared Tree Speech on their blog!

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Read full article here!

http://hyperallergic.com/305111/a-city-where-trees-tweet/

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Lovely article on #TreeSpeech by Mel Kozakciewicz, posted on Jersey City Independent

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2016/06/trees-are-tweeting-in-jersey-city/

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Enjoy our first #TreeSpeech promo video, #1 of 4!

If trees could talk, they’d be sassy ;)

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#TreeSpeech is gearing up to launch on June 20! 

Have you ever been curious about what that Birch on the street corner is experiencing? Do you enjoy pretending you’re someone (or something) else? Or do you simply wish our city was 10 degrees cooler in the summer?

Email [email protected] to find out more.