How do fire, forests, and landscape politics intersect? In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we speak with Border Agency (Agencia de Borde), a research and art collective, about their latest exhibition Bosques de Fuego (Fire Forest) at the Museo de La Solidaridad Salvador Allende in Santiago, Chile.
We discuss the role of eucalyptus plantations in reshaping the Chilean landscape, and consider the power dynamics involved in cultivating forests. We also explore the opaque borders between monocultural and wild landscapes, and look at how collaboration can open up different ways of inhabiting and caring for landscapes.
Border Agency was founded and is directed by Sebastián Melo, Rosario Montero and Paula Salas, and works internationally with bases in Santiago de Chile and London, UK.