ECO ACTION FOREST
ABOUT
Eco Action Forest is an artist-led platform founded by Adrian Dongmin Choi, rooted in the vision of Environment × Human × Art. Working across performance, visual art, research, education, and community-based collaboration, it develops multidisciplinary projects that begin in everyday environments — cities, villages, coastlines, and the places where ecological and human life meet. Rather than approaching environmental questions as abstract issues, Eco Action Forest works through lived environments, shared processes, and artistic experimentation.
MISSION
To translate the materials, traces, and relationships of the living world into artistic experience — creating moments in which people sense, observe, and think together about the world they inhabit. Not to deliver messages, but to make space for renewed attention and connection.
VISION
A world in which the sense of connection between human life, natural life, and the more-than-human world remains alive in everyday experience. Eco Action Forest works toward that recovery through art: slowly, concretely, and with care.
WORKING PRINCIPLES
Process — We center the time of making over the finished object. Research, collection, transformation, and collective action are all part of the work. Site — We work in lived environments rather than isolated studio conditions. Cities, villages, riversides, markets, and coastlines are not backdrops, but active conditions of the work. Collaboration — We build work that cannot be made alone. Artists, residents, researchers, educators, and technical collaborators often meet within the same project.
WORKING LOGIC
HISTORY
ABOUT
2013–2014 — Beginnings: Founded under the name Project GR in 2013 and formally established in 2014, the practice began in Busan as an interdisciplinary platform connecting environment, human experience, and art.
2015–2019 — ECO ART Series: Supported annually by the Busan Cultural Foundation, the ECO ART Series developed sustained site-responsive projects across Busan's stations, markets, riversides, neighborhoods, and coastal areas — in collaboration with artists from the UK, France, and Hong Kong, and presented at UN COP24 and COP25. In 2019, the platform was renamed Eco Action Forest.
2020–2023 — Transition and Expansion: The practice expanded across online, publishing, and international platforms. This period included the publication of We Are Serious About Climate Change and recognition with the Arts Management Award from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea.
2024–Present — Coastal and International Practice: Recent work deepens coastal research and material translation — and expands toward international collaboration.
