What’s the potential of the ‘erotic’ – of ‘play’ and ‘pleasure’ – in planetary thinking? Following “the practice of cruising… as an ecological ethic,” the research thread traces the “impersonal intimacies” and nonlinear tensions between non-verbal communication and sensorial gestures through the ‘tapping’ (or bleeding) of the Aleppo pine in Greece. During their fellowship, the artist will travel to Evia to learn the island’s resin-based economy through harvest and their local resilience to disaster, following the aftermath of climate change-aggravated wildfires in 2021.
“to tap, to lean, to twist, to warp” is part of “too cool to burn,” a long-term research project that reimagines “climate sensitivity” – a climate science equation that measures Earth’s uncertainty from increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

The ongoing project activates dissonance and delusion as tactics, reframing climate as a medium for negotiating relationality between humans and the more-than-human to align interspecies behaviors and communication.