We are starting back up with our Friday link love post. Here are some cool projects and sites from around the webs.
Happy City Birds from Projektland on Vimeo.
Local artist, Thomas Dambo, has been covering Copenhagen with colorful birdhouses (for hjemløse fuglerne) made from recycled materials in a project called Happy City Birds. The video above documents one of his public birdhouse making events. We are going to one on Sunday and will report back next week about making birdhouses for Copenhagen’s avian population.
Another local artist, Camilla Berner is doing interesting work redefining what types of plants a true garden might contain. Her Black Box garden project cultivated plants that others might consider to be weeds.
This week we interviewed independent, radical curator, Sue Spaid. She turned us on to the work of Patricia Johanson, a long time environmental artist. Johanson works on large scale projects involving the landscape, like this one where she recreated a freshwater swamp in a park, providing habitat for local wildlife.
Artists at SP Weather Station make art about the weather. Building on the amateur scientist movement, this project, “co-founded by artists Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson in 2007, collects weather data, hosts a Guest Lecture Series, and organizes weather-related publications, events, and exhibitions.”gh amateur data collection, a weather related discussion series,
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