We expected 5,000 and 8, 000 came.
Wild boar meat (sausage, paté, etc.), homemade cheese, candied violets, 5kg garlic, 21 jars of plum jam, 4 liters rhubarb syrup, 6,000 Salanova lettuce heads, 25 kg pearl barley, 20 kg tomatoes, 1,000 chicken eggs, 50 kg carrots,10 liters pumpkin seed oil, and this […]
I am working on a book project about artists who work with land, the environment, plants, growing, and ecology in their artwork. I have been talking to several different cultural practitioners about why they do what they do. Some work in groups and some work on their own. Some consider themselves healers, some prefer to […]
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 knew the artist and activist, Nicole Garneau from Chicago, but got to know her more deeply during the time she spent in Europe last year both in Copenhagen and London. In London, Nicole lead the performance workshop, Art-Oil-Numbers-Bodies-Love in association with Platform London, about performative responses to the issues of […]
Link love…Design solves environment
This week’s link round up focuses on design and art projects that help, improve, or shape the environment. Do you think they work?
Ocean cleanup, is it possible? A young designer has generated a possible solution to the massive amount of plastic floating in the ocean. Food shortage? No problem just re-engineer […]
Superkilen: Participatory Park Extreme!
We spend a lot of time paying attention to various aspects of our neighborhood. Sometimes it is through casual observations made in the course of our daily comings and goings. Other times, it is a sustained reflection and recurring engagement with things over longer periods. This post is about the latter impulse; I have […]
Die Kunst der Intervention II / The Art of Intervention 2
The Mythological Quarter was in residence in Berlin last year in the early spring at Lichtenberg Studios in Berlin. Uwe Jonas, the director of the residency program, puts together an exhibition each year of the work of the residents at the studios. We have a couple of things in this show reflecting on urban bird […]
Last Friday, I went over to Malmö for the opening of Flora & Friends at the Skånes Konstförening. This tiny, independently run artspace above a paint store on outskirts of Malmö often has good exhibitions. It gives artists and students working with experimental projects a place to exhibit. Artist/curator, Jeanette Land Schou put together […]
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.
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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