Andrea Bowers
I Plan to Stay a Believer - The Arcadia 4 Tree Sit, 2013
Single channel video with color and sound
60:55 min
Edition 5 + 2 AP
B-ABOWERS-.13-0014
In 2011 Andrea Bowers was arrested, with three other activists, for climbing into the trees of a native oak woodland habitat in Arcadia, CA and trying to save a pristine...
In 2011 Andrea Bowers was arrested, with three other activists, for climbing into the trees of a native oak woodland habitat in Arcadia, CA and trying to save a pristine forest of 250 trees from being clearcut by the county of Los Angeles. Ultimately, she was arrested and placed in jail for two days. Bowers videotaped the entire experience until the sheriffs took her camera into evidence. The result is a video, "I Plan to Stay a Believer" (2013) that includes her footage, news footage and the sheriff department’s recordings. Tree sitting is a form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose, to protect it from being cut down.
Exhibitions
2013 Andrea Bowers, Cultivating the Courage to Sin, Capitain Petzel, Berlin.2020 ANDREA BOWERS - grief and hope, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Publications
Andrea Bowers, Exhibition catalogue of Pomona College Museum of Art and Pitzer College Art Galleries, 2014, p. 56 and 57.Andrea Bowers, edited by Connie Butler and Michael Darling. Exhibition catalogue of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Hammer Museum Los Angeles, 2021, p. 32 and 33.