Tom Bailey: Tragedy of Anthropocentric Art. How to Co-create with Trees?
Isn’t art, by definition, a human activity for human audiences? In Vigil, British theatre-makerand choreographer Tom Bailey attempted to embody 26,000 extinct species – though, of course, he failed. Yet in this failure lies the question: can we ever escape our human point of view, or only see it more clearly? Recorded at the KoresponDance Festival 2025 in Žďár nad Sázavou, this conversation explores performing for and with trees, beyond human creativity, technology as empathy, playing outdoors versus indoors, and the practical challenges of creating truly green art.