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We are excited to share a new project that several friends of the MQ are involved with–Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life. The book is edited by Jaime Kruse and Elizabeth Ellsworth and out with the Brooklyn based, Punctum Books, a print on demand […]
We have often written and talked about our interest in the Living Structures of radical architect, Ken Isaacs. His Matrix system has inspired many aspects of our own home life. The system’s clean design and ease of reconfiguration is of both aesthetic and philosophical interest to us.
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Images of Farming
By Bonnie On 9 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Arts and culture, Book reviews, Books, Design
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. Founding member Wapke Feenstra, recently sent the MQ the group’s new book, Images of […]
Astrid Noacks Atelier, at Rådmandsgade 34, was the studio of celebrated Danish sculptress, Astrid Noack from 1936-1950. Astrid loved the Ydre Nørrebro neighborhood we now call home. She was inspired by the wealth of activity–tradesmen, shopkeepers, children, families–in and around her little studio. The tiny room, kept warm with […]
Halloween struck in the Mythological Quarter last night.
We started off with a pumpkin carving workshop at YNKB , a long time art space in the MQ run by a large network of artists. It is an open cultural space that hosts sporadic art shows, talks, screenings, and events.
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Mythological Quarter neighbors and friends, Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung, have opened a new exhibition space in the neighborhood. The pair have long collaborated under the name itinerant_sends_for_itinerant, and they chose this name for their new space at Borups Allé 31. The name refers to a person who […]
Fredag connect: Vand Overalt / Friday connect: Water Water Everywhere
By Brett On 19 October, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Exhibitions, Water
This Friday Connect is dedicated to artists making work about and with water, specifically in relation to current pressures exerted on water supplies by global climate change, destructive resource extraction, the production of commodities and so on.
Surface Tension, an ambitious exhibition presenting artists who use water […]
We have contributed a short essay to this new book that is being released in London on October 24 at The Showroom. We will post our text and more information on the book once we get a copy in our hands. We can’t wait to see it!
24 October, 6.30–8.30pm
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Friday Connect: Public Art
By Bonnie On 5 October, 2012 · 6 Comments · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Friday connect
Today, it is raining in Denmark and we are thinking about public art for our Friday link roundup. Where does it happen? What constitutes a public space? And how does it intersect and effect the wildlife in a public space?
We need to […]
Friday Connect: The Trees Are Talking!
By Brett On 21 September, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Design, Forest, Friday connect, Public space
This Friday Connect takes a look at an assortment of projects that emphasize the interconnections we feel with trees. They each visualize or give voice to trees and what trees communicate with us.
The trees are already talking to one another. Professor Suzanne Simard has been doing research in […]
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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