Eunseon Park and Junho Kim part of the artist collective Listen to the City—from Seoul, Korea—recently gave a presentation about their work at the Nørrebro art space, Itinerant Sends for Itinerant. The pair is part of the larger Listen to the City group–artists, designers and […]
Skovene – i din lomme Opening
On Friday, we went to the Round Tower for the opening of the Skovene-i din lomme/Forests-in your pocket, the Forest Festival at Copenhagen’s Round Tower. Skovene-i din lomme is an exhibition focused on raising awareness about global forest ecology through beautiful forest images […]
Forests in your pocket
Inger Kærgaard wants you to go take a hike…in the forest, at least.
We interviewed Inger in 2011 and have since become friends with this energetic, charming, and creative person, who is totally committed to environmental activism. In that interview, we mention Inger’s project to […]
We are happy to announce a brand new edition—the 4th and Final one—of our guide to The Library of Radiant Optimism For Let’s Re-Make the World collection of publications.
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Mountains and more mountains
Two drawings of mountains from our friend Micah Bornstein.
Micah and I have an ongoing letter correspondence about place. We discuss what it means to find one landscape in another? For example, seeing a mountain in a child’s toy, a pile of laundry, or a […]
Fredag connect: Vand Overalt / Friday connect: Water Water Everywhere
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 […]
Svensk sojabønner / Swedish soybeans
This summer we grew soybeans at Nørrebro’s rooftop garden, DYRK. They were heirloom Swedish soy beans (also known as Glycine Max) named Fiskeby III (there are numerous varieties of Fiskeby) from a seed archive in Russia called the N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (designated […]
Friday Connect: Public Art
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: Agri-cultural
Seed saving, composting, growing, planting, reaping and sowing, the cultivation of a field. Agricultural practices are a consistent source of inspiration for artists and designers. It can also be a place to start for rethinking how we relate to the landscape and how we think about conservation practices.This week’s links connect […]
This post is part of a series by artist, present day naturalist, and extended MQ neighbor, Micah Bornstein. Bornstein lives in the Northern New England state of Vermont, where he thinks about local food, local ecology, and the social structures around these things. On a bi-monthly basis, he will be contributing text and images, […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
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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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