Be-coming Tree is collection of four videos documenting the seasonal durational live-streamed performative acts by Jatun Risba in Panovec forest in Nova Gorica, Slovenia during the pandemic year 2020/21. The artwork enacts an encounter between the stream of the human World Wide Web with the kingdom of the Wood Wide Web. The artist forms an embryonic entanglement with woods in order to re-member the invaluable beauty, vigour and generosity of wild landscapes, within and without.

Be-coming Tree started as a personal live-streamed, durational performance which took place on the 30th of April 2020. The 1hr communion with an uprooted beech tree was healing and meaningful: it provided the artist with an insight into the coexistence of life and death in daily existence. The tree trunk on which Risba was laying in stillness, was a site teeming with life while undergoing the process of self-composting. Inspired by this vision of interdependence and vitality of cessation, the project gained a collective, inclusive and self-empowering direction. Be-coming Tree branched out into a co-creation of 3 female/non-binary artists with ages ranging from 34 to 73: Jatun Risba, Danielle Imara and O. Pen Be and is producing seasonal live-streamed collective Live Art events that have so far included 71 artists from 32 countries, 6 continents. More about the project at https://becomingtree.live/. (Source: author)