Arboreal

Enter the world of Arboreal, a speculative performance that connects body, forest and city. Located in parallel sites of Stockholm, Sweden, and the adjacent ancient forest within Tyresta National Park, Arboreal blurs the boundaries between wilderness and cityscape. Central to this experience is a performative building, shaped by the interplay of spatial and temporal connections between the body-in-motion and the forest. Within meticulously choreographed architectural spaces, digitally recorded bodies from the forest perform, their movements shaping an evolving cityscape. Motion-capture and digital recording technologies are pivotal to this exploration, challenging human-centric spatial norms. Through augmented reality overlays and forest dance projections, viewers engage with recorded performances, while the building itself dynamically responds to performers’ control, illuminating and moving in sync with the time of day. This otherworldly project questions traditional urban greening approaches, advocating for a nuanced understanding of human-environment interaction. Arboreal invites audiences to reconsider their relationship with nature in urban spaces, offering an alternative view on coexisting with other beings within hybrid digital physical worlds.

Camille Dunlop
Camille Dunlop is a digital, spatial and speculative designer based in London, with a background in architecture. Her work transverses time-based and digital media, engaging with feminist, ecological and architectural perspectives. Currently, she is an Art-Tech Artist in Residence at A+E Lab. Camille has worked across a variety of projects with the speculative design studio Superflux, crafting immersive and experiential futures in both client and research projects. In parallel to practice, she is a Design Tutor for Cinematic and Videogame Architecture MArch at Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), and an Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins (UAL).