Artemis Presents: Cedar Exodus by EcoRove

Celebrate Arbor Day by joining us for an outdoor screening of Cedar Exodus by the artistic collective EcoRove, which combines the short film, Where Can We Be Found?, and the animated drawings, Trapped and Exploited, exhibited at The New Museum in 2023-24.

Cedar Exodus re-tells narratives of the Cedar across history and the present moment, which has been used since ancient times as a symbol of eternity, immortality and, more recently, as an emblem of political superiority. All while the tree itself is near extinction.

EcoRove artists, Em Joseph and Iyad Gaida, will lead a talk-back after the screening. This open discussion will trace various degrees of human impact leading to the cedar tree’s contemporary demise, drawing comparisons between the cedar and the disruption of the green space across NYC, due to climate change, gentrification, extractive tourism and commercial consumption. The founder of Our Temenos, Rosemarie Miner, will close the talk-back by outlining how the themes explored by EcoRove are being put into practice through the land stewardship of ecologically functional green infrastructure.