BIRD HABITAT: FOUND vs. DESIGNED
A big obsession of ours is urban habitat–animal and human made. We think about cities that are designed to accommodate both human and animal populations in a sustainable and thoughtful manner. We have made our own urban animal habitat projects, so we are interested when […]
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 […]
The following is our full essay from the Invisible Spaces of Parenthood: A collection of pragmatic propositions for a better future book which we posted about earlier this week.
Systems of Support for Families and Artists
By Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom
We are both artists. […]
“Is it possible at this stage to posit that parenthood is invisible because women are? Whether we like to admit it or not it is very much still ‘women and children’ and, in a way, the invisibility of women. From here on, it is the usual feminist rant. However, it […]
It seems that a house is not a home until you make your own bed. Our intrepid Vermont correspondent, Micah, has this to say about the phenomena:
Building our bed feels very Vermont. Bed building is almost a requisite for full Vermont citizenship. Everybody here is a woodworker or hobby woodworker. […]
MQ friend Sarah Ross sent us some urban habitat news–birds in Mexico City are using cigarette butts to line their nests. According to recent research, the birds (house sparrows, among other species) use the nicotine laced fibers of the discarded butts to repeal insects and pests from their nests.
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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 […]
On a daily walk around the neighborhood, I noticed an urban habitat site that I hadn’t seen before.
A metal tower is playing host to this large bush. The tower’s primary purpose is holding up the street lighting architecture, but it’s secondary purpose has overtaken […]
This homemade bench appeared on our street a few months ago. We finally remembered to take a photo of it. It is quite chunky and out of place where is sits, but it seems like it is sturdy gets a lot of use. Several benches like this have appeared and disappeared from our […]
We really miss having a garden of our own and sometimes we raise potato starts in our apartment for no other reason than that they make us happy and keeps our intimate knowledge of how to do this close at hand.
I was cleaning out some old pots we had in […]
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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