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Local artist, Camilla Berner has released a new book documenting her 2011 project Black Box Garden. The book is an English translation of the blog she kept during the run of the project. It includes beautiful photographs of the garden in process and tells about her daily interactions with the citizens […]
The edge effect is this idea that the more edge you create, the more biodiversity you create, where a meadow meets a forest or a piece of water meets a meadow. Two different ecologies meet. Two different kinds of landscapes meet … that is where you find the most biodiversity at that edge.
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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.
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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 […]
Brett and I have been artists in residency at the Danish Art Workshops (Statens Værksteder for Kunst) for the past several weeks. We are preparing for an upcoming performance project as part of the 2014 Acts Performance Festival at the Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art. For our project, we decided to […]
This installment of Radio Aktiv’s “Sonic Deep Map” was made for recent transmission on Chicago via Radius’s GRIDS series.
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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’m reading this book right now: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.The author Richard Louv looks at the psychological effects of spending time in the natural world, which you may have guessed tend to be overwhelmingly positive for children and adults, improving creativity, mood, and social […]
The book Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook is out of print. Edited by Max Andrews and released in 2006, the book was part of the enviable Art & Ecology series initiated by The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
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