Fredag connect: Vand Overalt / Friday connect: Water Water Everywhere
By Brett On 19 October, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Exhibitions, Water
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 […]
This viking is holding up a dragon ( hard to see in these photos).
He lives on Rådmansgade, holding up the dragon at the entrance to a school. The viking adds fantasy to our daily walks through the Mythological Quarter.
Svensk sojabønner / Swedish soybeans
By Bonnie On 16 October, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Dirt, Environmental activism, Growing, Neighborhood, Sojabønner
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 […]
The Vermont Looks Like Vermont Series of Posts.
Collect the sun. Harness the wind. Alternative energy is exciting. I get excited. Though, maybe not as excited as this guy who works at the local coffee shop where I go, and is studying electrical engineering and solar […]
We have contributed a short essay to this new book that is being released in London on October 24 at The Showroom. We will post our text and more information on the book once we get a copy in our hands. We can’t wait to see it!
24 October, 6.30–8.30pm
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It is harvest time in gardens around the world. In Nørrebro, we have several neighborhood gardens, from DYRK Nørrebro to Den Fælleskøkkenhave (the logo of which is pictured above). This June we got a new garden–Byhaven 2200 [City Garden 2200]. It sits at the corner […]
Friday Connect: Public Art
By Bonnie On 5 October, 2012 · 6 Comments · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Friday connect
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 […]
I came across this great poster while walking with my daughter through our neighborhood. It is for the 30th anniversary of Ungdomshuset [The Youth House], which was brutally evicted in 2007 from its Jagtvej 69 address. I really like the ghost building in this image … the place still haunts the […]
We went on a walk in Bellahøj a few weekends ago. While there, we found a tiny park with a monument to Gandhi, the Indian anti-colonial activist. In Gandhi Park, we also found an installation of newly planted trees. These trees were part of the 100,000 Trær plan that […]
Friday Connect: Agri-cultural
By Bonnie On 28 September, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Agriculture, Environmental activism, Farms, Friday connect, Growing
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 […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
Read Brett's essay about the park.
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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.
BOOK: Deep Routes
Bonnie co-edited this collection of essays that reflect on who gets to define a region and what the struggles are in relation to being in a place and demanding social justice across many issues and terrains.
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."
Culture Breakers
One of many books we collected that deeply inspire us. Get the PDF of the book.
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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