The Region From Below: Power Plants
Bonnie and I have been sharing this map we made with our collaborators at the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor / Compass Group a few years ago. It shows the corn and coal-sheds of the Midwestern USA (corn fields, ethanol refineries, coal mines, coal-fired power plants, etc.). We wanted to post it on […]
This summer we were part of a deeply inspiring camp of artist, activists, and researchers called Case Pyhäjoki in Pyhäjoki, Finland. We’ve written about it here and here. The camp was focused on bringing people together to talk about a nuclear power plant proposed for this rural […]
Brett is away from the MQ this weekend hanging out in Berlin at the Miss Read Art Book Fair. He is representing Half Letter Press and Temporary Services at the fair, but also sharing books from friends like Tupilakosaurus–the monograph of Greenlandic-Danish visual artist and thinker Pia […]
Radio Aktiv in the Audible Dwelling
On September 8, Sunday, the first broadcast was made of the Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map, a radio show created for broadcast made up of various recorded material gathered at the Case Pyhäjoki camp for artists, theorists, scholars, cultural producers, and activists to respond to the threat of nuclear power in […]
Urban Ecology in Northern Ireland
I recently returned from a trip to Derry, Northern Ireland where I worked with artist in residence Andrea Francke at the Centre for Contemporary Art on a workshop about urban ecology, foraging, map making and orienting yourself to a place.
Brett and I first worked […]
“Kiitos” is Finnish for “thank you.” This short report is of a project we realized with Daniela Canila at Case Pyhäjoki, in Pyhäjoki, Finland, and initially posted here.
As the group at Case Pyhäjoki has gotten to know Pyhäjoki better, and the local struggle to save Hanhikvi […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
Read Brett's essay about the park.
Download our guide:
This is our guide to how-to books from the counterculture of the 60s and 70s. Click to get the download page.
Categories
- Agriculture (11)
- Animal sounds (1)
- Artist parents (19)
- Arts and culture (106)
- Bees (3)
- Book reviews (14)
- Books (18)
- Critical essays (5)
- Daily Photo (5)
- Design (36)
- Dirt (11)
- Environmental activism (43)
- Exhibitions (24)
- Farms (11)
- Forest (7)
- Friday connect (15)
- Growing (42)
- Habitat (38)
- Homesteading (16)
- Interviews (15)
- Kitchen (14)
- Living structure (9)
- MISC (15)
- Mythological (2)
- Neighborhood (83)
- Ocean News (1)
- Our Art Work (21)
- Personal – Design/Art (3)
- Play (2)
- Playground (4)
- Projects (21)
- Public space (53)
- Resilience (13)
- Sea Side (2)
- Sojabønner (2)
- Tofu (8)
- Vermont correspondence (7)
- Water (3)
- Wednesday picture (31)
- Workshop (1)
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.
READ MORE
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.
• Read our review of the book.
• Buy the book.
• Download the book.