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In cartography, triangulation is an outdated method from when land surveyors physically measured and staked out elevations and distances using optical devices and physical measuring sticks (now replaced by GPS and trilateration). This mirrors the acts of TRE TRE TRE, where bodies and instruments are physically placed and in motion in the forest. One can only partially contribute to the simple principle of triangulation: That observation from more than two points provides a richer opportunity to understand phenomena. | In cartography, triangulation is an outdated method from when land surveyors physically measured and staked out elevations and distances using optical devices and physical measuring sticks (now replaced by GPS and trilateration). This mirrors the acts of TRE TRE TRE, where bodies and instruments are physically placed and in motion in the forest. One can only partially contribute to the simple principle of triangulation: That observation from more than two points provides a richer opportunity to understand phenomena. | ||
<sup>1</sup> Malin Arnell and Åsa Elzén in a.o. | <sup>1</sup> Malin Arnell and Åsa Elzén in a.o. ''Skogen kallar'', a public art work that preserves a triangular shaped forest in Southern Sweden for 50 years to come connecting to stories about the Fogelstad group, a queer feminist initiative formed in Sweden in 1921. | ||
Revision as of 11:16, 4 December 2024
Idea
TRE TRE TRE is conceptualised as a curatorial format that brings together a series of processes and experiments situated in three different forest regions in the North Eastern corner of the Nordic countries. The forests of Pasvik, Paljakka and Temminki-Markkatieva are located at a distance of approximately 800 km from each other. Together they form a triangle.
Here, fieldwork is being conducted by small groups of artists and various other knowledge carriers. As we return to the forest with artistic tools, methods and gestures, we contribute towards weaving vessels of sensual knowledges, resting in forest-human relationships, and founded on the basis of each contributor's particular practice and affinities. Do we sense the knowing? As the processes gradually ground the work within these places, they make physical and imaginary connections between the three forest localities. They gradually perform a triangulation.
‘Triangulation’ is a term found in different fields. It is a method used in sociology and in geometry. In art it has been used to stress non-binary understandings and worldviews1. Three, as a number, is considered auspicious, and even sacred, in most mystical traditions. In physics, the number is too large to describe, while mathematics says to prove that it exists. In some indigenous languages, only the numbers one and two exist, while the number after two indicates 'more'. Many words with the prefix tri- also have the meaning of more than two (e.g. the word Tribe).
In cartography, triangulation is an outdated method from when land surveyors physically measured and staked out elevations and distances using optical devices and physical measuring sticks (now replaced by GPS and trilateration). This mirrors the acts of TRE TRE TRE, where bodies and instruments are physically placed and in motion in the forest. One can only partially contribute to the simple principle of triangulation: That observation from more than two points provides a richer opportunity to understand phenomena.
1 Malin Arnell and Åsa Elzén in a.o. Skogen kallar, a public art work that preserves a triangular shaped forest in Southern Sweden for 50 years to come connecting to stories about the Fogelstad group, a queer feminist initiative formed in Sweden in 1921.