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Cultural Practices within and Across (2010) answers the question, ‘What is deglobalisation?’
Cultural Practices within and Across (2010) is a compendium of European trans-local cultural production; a useful handbook for looking at ‘the role of culture in a society which faces a number of economic, social, political […]
Kerianne Quick is an artist who knows how to drive a bulldozer, and also a forklift. A clue that it is important for her to take matters into her own hands. This independent spirit has led her to develop her current body of work, Source Matters.
Quick visited us at the Mythological […]
This is the 3rd and final part of the report back on Giving Harbor.
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Giving Harbor continued.
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A defaced Konservative Folkeparti [Conservative Peoples’ Party] poster across from the sign — the party was summarily trounced in the elections.
We learned later that the Conservative Peoples’ Party was having their election night party at the Marriott hotel. Permission […]
We have a deep interest in working in public spaces, of making art that lives outside of the elite, privileged spaces of artistic reception, and dwells in the world in many diverse ways. From time to time, we will report on our own individual projects within the context of the Mythological Quarter.
We are super excited to have Shaun Slifer and Mary Tremonte in town from Justseeds. The pair will be hanging the RESOURCED portfolio at YNKB, our next door neighbor art space.
The RESOURCED opening will be at YNKB, 15 October kl. 18:00-21:00.
Shaun and Mary will […]
Whale Fall is the beautiful new short film from Sharon Shattuck and Flora Lichtman about the after life of a whale. The animated short uses puppets and motion graphics to tell the story of a whale after it dies. Apparently, a whale can live between 50 and 75 years and it can nourish […]
Kultivator is a collective of people living and working in rural Sweden on a farm. They are a family-sisters, husbands, children. They are also artists. Their art practice is centered on art and agriculture. In fact, they even staged a wedding between art and agriculture in 2010. Last weekend […]
We found this website, the Lexicon of Sustainabilty which is seeking to use cultural production to share ideas for structuring the world in a more environmentally friendly way. So, is it working?
The project seems to be funded in a large part by Google. Not sure how to feel […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
Read Brett's essay about the park.
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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.
BOOK: Deep Routes
Bonnie co-edited this collection of essays that reflect on who gets to define a region and what the struggles are in relation to being in a place and demanding social justice across many issues and terrains.
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."
Culture Breakers
One of many books we collected that deeply inspire us. Get the PDF of the book.
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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