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 are here getting ready for the opening of Household Ecologies #5: The Alphabet Tower at Flensborggade 57 on Saturday afternoon and snapped a super, secret shot of The Alphabet Tower being packed up.
Come out on Saturday to see the whole thing in action.
We would like to invite you to our upcoming exhibition: Household Ecologies #5: The Alphabet Tower , May 25 from 14:00-17:00 at Flensborggade 57.
Household Ecologies #5: The Alphabet Tower
Exhibition dates: May 25-June 23
Opening Saturday, May 25th 14:00-17:00 | Flensborggade 57
An
afternoon opening with a grill party and interactive art for kids.
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 […]
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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“Brother, Can You Spare a Stack” at The Center For Book Arts, NY, January 18
We have work in an exhibition at The Center for Book Arts that opens January 18, 2013. It is called Brother, Can You Spare a Stack, and is organized by Yulia Tikhonova. We were asked to present material from our project The Library of Radiant Optimism […]
This post marks the first in a new series here at the MQ about Artist Parents and the ways in which they maintain a creative practice while balancing the labor of parenting. Each Artist Parent post will feature information about what the artist is working on + any comments that they have about […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
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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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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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