I recently conducted a two-day workshop in Helsinki, on two different islands in the Baltic sea, with 10 participants. The workshop was coordinated with the exhibition Dissolving Frontiers, one of many exhibitions, incubators, projects, and more that are part of Frontiers in Retreat, […]
De-Industrializing Subjectivity, Restoring Senses and Telling New Stories
Brett Bloom will lead a two-day workshop De-Industrializing Subjectivity, Restoring Senses and Telling New Stories which will be realised in Suomenlinna, Helsinki on Wednesday–Thursday, 2–3 July, 2014. If you are interested in participating in the workshop, inquiries can be sent to info(at)hiap.fi by 25 June, 2014.
What kinds […]
For the past month, Bonnie has been hard working on a complete overhaul of our Let’s Re-Make web site. It is now a more clear repository for the art works we make and the initiatives we are active in. Bonnie updated everything making a better interface for […]
Dissolving Frontiers, HIAP, Helsinki
Bonnie and I are excited to have work in this exhibition. We will be presenting a couple of our Powerless Powerpoints. We will post photos at a later date. Brett will be leading a 2-day workshop. More details to follow.
Dissolving Frontiers, the fifth annual summer exhibition at HIAP takes a look at […]
Listen to Radio Aktiv’s “Sonic Deep Map” (2014)
This installment of Radio Aktiv’s “Sonic Deep Map” was made for recent transmission on Chicago via Radius’s GRIDS series.
Listen and let us know what you think.
GRIDS Episode 48: Radio Aktiv “Sonic Deep Map”
Here are some images of the recent transmission of the Sonic Deep Map that Radio Aktiv (Bonnie Fortune, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Brett Bloom) made. It was made to continue our support of people, like Pro Hanhikivi, who are fighting to stop the building of an unnecessary and unneeded nuclear power […]
We have teamed up once again with Antye Greie-Ripatti, as Radio Aktiv, to present our sonic deep mapping of a small town in Finland and its struggle to free itself from a nuclear-powered future. We were invited by Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform based in Chicago, IL, USA, to transmit three new compositions as a part […]
I am happy to announce that I was recently invited to write an essay for the magazine Kindling Quarterly, which reflects on contemporary fatherhood. My essay titled “The Spacing of Parental Values” is now out in the magazine’s fourth issue.
My essay focuses on how city […]
The Region From Below: Power Plants
Bonnie and I have been sharing this map we made with our collaborators at the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor / Compass Group a few years ago. It shows the corn and coal-sheds of the Midwestern USA (corn fields, ethanol refineries, coal mines, coal-fired power plants, etc.). We wanted to post it on […]
I co-organized a public talk and workshop by the group Art Leaks. It will take place on Monday, October 28, at 19:00, in Aarhus at rum46. It is a part of year-long series of lectures and workshops called Making Social Realities With Books.
Making Social Realities […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
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Video interview:
Watch our interview of SeedBroadcast, a mobile project that is part seed library and part seed-saving-story-collecting machine-recording the stories of seed saving, farming, and food sovereignty work being done around the US.
Download a poster Bonnie made about biodiversity in a vacant lot in the Amager borough of Copenhagen, in collaboration with biologist, Inger Kærgaard, ornithologist, Jørn Lennart Larsen and botanist, Camilla Sønderberg Brok: A BRIEF TAXONOMY OF A LOT
We made and installed a network of bat houses in Urbana, Illinois, to support the local and regional bat population, but also to begin a conversation about re-making the built environment.
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BOOK REVIEW:
We write often about artists and art groups that work with putting ‘culture’ back in agriculture. Here is a new favorite: myvillages, a group of three women based in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Read more...
Post Revolutionary Exercises
We really admire the dedicated hard work of Kultivator who seeks to fuse agriculture and art in their work. Click this sentence to get a PDF of their poster collection called "Post Revolutionary Exercises."
Cultural Practices Within And Across
This amazing book networks urban and rural resilience and sustainability projects around the world. Deeply inspiring projects in Romania, Paris, San Francisco, and elsewhere.
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