Go! Sheepies!: Visit to the Kultivator Farm in Sweden
Like everything they do, the sign leading to the Kultivator Farm is infused with humor. Konst och grönt (Art and Vegetables), a play on the typical Swedish kiosk sign frukt och grönt (fruit and vegetables). “It’s nice to have a relative who works for the city. He just shows up with these signs. Doesn’t […]
Alphabet Tower poster dispenser
Here is the poster holder and dispenser we made for our exhibition Household Ecologies #5: The Alphabet Tower. FREE copies of the poster are available at Flensborgade 57, or we are happy to send you one if you request one via email: bonniefortune –at– gmail –dot– com.
Kids on a slide: The Alphabet Tower in action.
This is the last in a series of posts about our recent installation at Flensborggade 57, a project room art space in Vesterbro. We have been excited to share The Alphabet Tower with you over the past week. The project is many things from a building experiment in recycled materials to an art […]
The Alphabet Tower is live. Get the poster!
On Saturday, we had the opening of Household Ecologies #5: The Alphabet Tower. It was a lot of fun to see our experimental play gym made from recycled materials getting so much use from the all the children who came to the opening. We will have a post devoted to the exuberant play that happened […]
We are here getting ready for the opening of Household Ecologies #5: The Alphabet Tower at Flensborggade 57 on Saturday afternoon and snapped a super, secret shot of The Alphabet Tower being packed up.
Come out on Saturday to see the whole thing in action.
We would like to invite you to our upcoming exhibition: Household Ecologies #5: The Alphabet Tower , May 25 from 14:00-17:00 at Flensborggade 57.
Household Ecologies #5: The Alphabet Tower
Exhibition dates: May 25-June 23
Opening Saturday, May 25th 14:00-17:00 | Flensborggade 57
An
afternoon opening with a grill party and interactive art for kids.
This post is the second in our series about Artist Parents
and the ways in which they maintain a creative practice while balancing
the labor of parenting. Each Artist Parent post will feature
information about what the artist is working on + comments that they
have about life as […]
Survival Strategies for Cultural Workers, The Showroom, London
Survival Strategies was initiated by Andrea Francke and The Showroom during Invisible spaces of parenthood: A collection of pragmatic propositions for a better future – a Communal Knowledge project at The Showroom in 2012
The Survival Strategies meetings are informal open sessions for cultural workers to meet and exchange on the challenges they […]
This post marks the first in a new series here at the MQ about Artist Parents and the ways in which they maintain a creative practice while balancing the labor of parenting. Each Artist Parent post will feature information about what the artist is working on + any comments that they have about […]
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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."
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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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