TREE+OYSTER

Tree+Oyster (Ana Vásquez and Jennae Santos) is a sensory installation partnership and co-creation ritual for cross-cultural intimacy. With the aim to cultivate collective trust and dreaming, Tree+Oyster facilitate non-verbal communication and play to shed anthropocentric perspective and language barriers for emergent ritual. The project builds immersive, site-specific happenings fed by intersectional decolonization practices, communal feasting, land-to-sea ecologies, plant and animal kinship and architectures, campfire jams, and archipelagic Indigenous mythologies from the Dominican Republic and the Philippines to stoke embodied memory, resist erasure, and generate shared mythmaking.

SENSORY INSTALLATION, SOCIAL PRACTICE, PERFORMANCE

2024

• “Tree+Oyster I” video for Brackish Brooklyn Video Fest IV @ Public Records, NYC

• “Tree+Oyster I” 2-channel video installation activation @ coLAB Arts, New Brunswick, NJ

2023

• “Trigger Release Ritual” for Feralpy curated by Jemila MacEwan & Amelia Heinzelman @ Flux Factory, Governors Island, NYC

• “Archipelagic Bliss” DJ Mess Set for Stray Dogs @ The Lot Radio, NYC

2022

• “SpectrePoetics” for Here in Spirit presented by Leah Guadagnoli & Notice Recordings @ The Church, Hillsdale, NY

• “Trigger Release Ritual / Harvest Rave” with Lucid Dream Minigolf @ Rubulad, NYC  

• “Trigger Release Ritual / Harvest Rave” presented by Attn Everybody @ Lunch Nightly, Kingston, NY

“Trigger Release Ritual” installation social practice as part of Feralpy @ Flux Factory, Governors Island, NYC on August 6, 2023