Reforest
November 2024-November 2025
w/ Judith Hamann and Michiyasu Furutani
Premiere at brut Wien, Dec 11 2025
Reforest is an ongoing transdisciplinary project that brings performance, sound, film, and poetry into dialogue with a specific forest landscape in Carinthia, Austria. As part of Adam’s artistic practice, Reforest engages with the forest not as backdrop or image, but as a living, breathing site — one that moves, breaks down, regenerates, and insists on its own forms of time and presence.
Together with artist and Butoh dancer Michiyasu Furutani and cellist and sound artist Judith Hamann, Adam returns multiple times over the course of one year to the same vulnerable sites within the forest — places marked by erosion, intervention, collapse, and quiet renewal. Over time, the trio works with what the forest offers: they move with and through the landscape, listen, record, and compose from the field; they film, write, collect and transform found objects. The result is not a single document or image, but an evolving live environment where bodies, materials, and atmospheres come together — on site and later in a performative installation, a live environment.
Together with artist and Butoh dancer Michiyasu Furutani and cellist and sound artist Judith Hamann, Adam returns multiple times over the course of one year to the same vulnerable sites within the forest — places marked by erosion, intervention, collapse, and quiet renewal. Over time, the trio works with what the forest offers: they move with and through the landscape, listen, record, and compose from the field; they film, write, collect and transform found objects. The result is not a single document or image, but an evolving live environment where bodies, materials, and atmospheres come together — on site and later in a performative installation, a live environment.
The project title, Reforest, signals a posture, a desire to foreground the regenerative, the more-than-human, the insistence of life even under threat. At its core, Reforest is about forming a relationship — not only with a place, but with its patterns, rhythms, wounds, and potential. It reflects on how we live with landscape, and how that mirrors the way we live with each other. The forest is both individual and collective: this tree, this rock, this beetle — and also a vast ecosystem of entanglement, regulation, and wildness. It is both natural space and economic resource, both self-willed and managed. This tension is not unlike the one we inhabit as humans.
Reforest takes time seriously: by returning to the same sites, the project builds intimacy. The lush density of June gives way to the bare branches of November. Plants spread, collapse, grow back. The landscape is experienced as process — sprouting, wilting, breaking, decomposing, reemerging. The artists respond not with co
ntrol but with attentiveness. Landscape is not a picture. It is not a static frame. It is motion, duration, change.
ntrol but with attentiveness. Landscape is not a picture. It is not a static frame. It is motion, duration, change.
Reforest resists quick capture. Instead, it insists on slowness, repetition, and presence. The work does not place the human performer at the center, but the landscape itself — its movements, its vulnerability, its temporalities. Through video, movement, sound, and poetry, Reforest makes room for audiences to sense themselves as part of a world in flux.
Reforest is a response to a darkening ecological and political moment. It is a practice of radical gentleness, a call to feel, and a gesture toward a livable future.
Artistic Collaboration: Michiyasu Furutani, Judith Hamann
