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Pumpkin’s Giving

By Bonnie On 28 November, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Dirt, Farms, Growing, Neighborhood

Earlier this year in June,  we had the honor of visiting the Kultivator farm in rural Sweden. The artist group lives on an organic dairy farm on the island of Öland where they run a residency and raise their children, along with several different types of animals. While we were visiting, […]

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Søger Lejlighed #6

By Bonnie On 19 November, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood, Public space

This is number 6 in our seriesof posts on apartment search signs. We are attracted to these signs because they are handmade expressions of personal need in public space and the people making them chose to use this method in an increasingly digital world. They also describe Copenhagen, a city that has huge challenges with […]

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Things We Make with Ada

By Bonnie On 13 November, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Arts and culture, Personal - Design/Art, Projects

We love building things with our daughter Ada.  Sometimes we use typical crafting materials and sometimes we use whatever we find around the house. Lately, it’s been cold outside and we have been indoors making a lot of things with her. She can learn about tactile materials with simple projects and power tool […]

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Maker spaces in the new Make/Shift

By Bonnie On 23 October, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Critical essays, Interviews, Our Art Work, Personal - Design/Art

I am super excited to be part of issue no. 14 of make/shift: feminisms in motion, the independent feminist culture magazine edited and published by Jess Hoffmann and DariaYudacufski.

My article, Queering the Hackerspace at Ms. Baltazar’s Laboratory and Beyond focuses on the work of Stefanie Wuschitz and Lesley Flanigan, two […]

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The Region From Below: Power Plants

By Brett On 22 October, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Environmental activism, Farms, Growing, Our Art Work

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 […]

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Art Leaks

By Brett On 21 October, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Books

I  co-organized a public talk and workshop by the group Art Leaks. It will take place on Monday, October 28, at 19:00, in Aarhus at rum46. It is a part of year-long series of lectures and workshops called Making Social Realities With Books.

Making Social Realities […]

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New Garden City

By Bonnie On 3 October, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Exhibitions

New Garden City  is an exhibition curated and organized by Art + Inovation Hub (Majken Overgaard and Pernille Skov) with Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, exploring the agricultural past of a Copenhagen suburb. Currently on display at Traneudstillingen (Gentofte Hovedbibliotek, Ahlmanns Allé 6, DK-2900 Hellerup, Denmark) in Gentofte until […]

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The Powerless PowerPoint

By Bonnie On 27 September, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Arts and culture, Our Art Work

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 […]

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Miss Read Art Book Fair – Berlin

By Bonnie On 20 September, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Books, Our Art Work

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 […]

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Edible Estates Denmark

By Bonnie On 19 September, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Growing, Public space

On Monday, I visited the artist and landscape architect,  Marie Markman in Aarhus where she is currently studying for her Phd at the Aarhus School of Architecture. Markman has been working with art in public space since 2000. Her work often deals with plants and urban gardens but is ultimately concerned […]

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  • Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint

    Alphabet of the Anthropocene | Mythological Quarter
  • Artist Parent Series:

    Spacing of Parental Values
    Antye Greie-Ripatti
    Zanny Begg
    Matthew Friday
    Andrea Francke
    Mythological Quarter
    Invisible Spaces of Parenthood

  • Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)

  • SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style

    Super-Inappropriate

    Read Brett's essay about the park.

    DANSK: Superkilen: Park med ekstrem borgerinddragelse!

    ENGLISH: Superkilen: Participatory Park Extreme!

  • Download our guide:

    The Library Of Radiant Optimism ... guide

    This is our guide to how-to books from the counterculture of the 60s and 70s. Click to get the download page.

  • Most Read:

    • The Garden of Exile The Garden of Exile
    • Living Structure making the rounds. Living Structure making the rounds.
    • Making the Geologic Now Making the Geologic Now
    • Rhubarb/Rabarber Rhubarb/Rabarber
    • Interview: Katherine Ball Interview: Katherine Ball
  • Get Out There

    • Buster Simpson
    • Case Pyhäjoki
    • City Repair
    • Dwelling Portably
    • DYRK Nørrebro
    • Erthonaut
    • Futurefarmers
    • Herbologies / Foraging Network
    • Justseeds
    • Kultivator
    • Københavns Fødevarefællesskab (KBHFF)
    • Let's Re-Make
    • Lexicon of Sustainability
    • Root Simple
    • Spontaneous Vegetation
    • Urban Agriculture DK
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  • Video interview:

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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.

  • BOOK: Deep Routes

    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.

    Get a copy of the book!


  • 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:

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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."


  • 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.
    • Read our review of the book.
    • Buy the book.
    • Download the book.


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