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There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
This post is the second in a series, to read more go here.
There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
I am part of a new exhibition at Clark College’s Archer Gallery in Vancouver, Washington. The show, titled Lupification, or the Divide, is curated by Blake Shell. Shell writes, “The artists in this exhibition approach humanity through its connection to or separation from the natural world. Each presents a […]
Happy New Year from all of us here in the heart of the Mythological Quarter in Ydre Nørrebro!
– Bonnie, Ada and Brett
Small acts and restraints
By Bonnie On 24 December, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Homesteading
A while ago, when we lived in Urbana, IL, I made this poster with my friend Micah Bornstein. It is a hand carved wood block plate print, with letterpress type, printed on a Vandercook proofpress. It says, “Preserve” at the top and, “a kitchencentric life” at the bottom. We made the poster to […]
Are you listening to Democracy Now’s coverage of the COP 17 meetings in Durban, South Africa?
Amazing interviews with climate scientists, activists, and others happening while Amy Goodman and Democracy Now are on the ground at the United Nations Climate Change Conference happening all week (28 […]
What had started out as a short reflection on several different micro-habitats I had encountered over a rapid period of time, from traveling to Belgrade and then on a study tour across the southwestern United States with students from the academy where I teach, has turned into a much longer essay. It will […]
Interview: Katherine Ball
By Bonnie On 25 November, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Interviews
We met artist and activist Katherine Ball when she lived in Copenhagen in the fall of 2010. Ball made us a worm-compost bin as a present/art piece before leaving the country on other adventures. I checked back in with her a year later to see what she was up to because of our […]
We talked with Danish artists, Field Work, about their collaboration and what projects they are working on right now. Field Work is Lise Skou and Nis Rømer. In addition to Field Work, Lise has worked with rum46, an artist run space in Aarhus, Denmark and Nis works with […]
This is the second installment for MQ of reports of the micro-habitats we come across. We have a continued interest in how peoples’ behavior shapes the spaces they live in and the environments they enact. Over the past two months I have found myself in many different cities and situations and wanted to […]
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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