AMY PEKAL

is dedicated to presenting art through co-authorship and collaboration. In her ongoing artistic-research, she facilitates community interventions located at the intersection of nature and culture to help communities and institutions transition to a climate-just future. She utilizes fieldwork and qualitative data to develop paintings, texts, and participatory events which emerge from the research process and operate both as objects to generate discourse and as facilitation tools to build across difference – infrastructures for living as naturecultures

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PLAY AS NATURECULTURES

PLAY AS NATURECULTURES
In collaboration with the Library of Study

Prospect Park, Brooklyn
2022

Play as Naturecultures explored natureculture relations in the situated context of the Donald and Barbara Zucker Natural Exploration Area. The Prospect Park Alliance used trees damaged by storms and other materials from within the park to engage children with nature and encourage unstructured play. Using trees from super storms, like Sandy, the now decomposing trees provide many homes for critters, bacteria, fungus, and plants alike while also opening pathways for this “unstructured zone of play.”

Participants were sent off to explore and notice and “follow” the ecology of the area. After returning to a central spot the group gathered to tell stories of their relatings and created a collective map of their learnings.

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