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Case Pyhäjoki — Artistic reflections on nuclear influence 1

By Brett On 26 July, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Arts and culture, Design, Environmental activism

We are busy preparing to travel to Pyhäjoki, Finland next week for a two week intensive gathering called “Case Pyhäjoki  — Artistic reflections on nuclear influence 1.”  We have been making a “powerless powerpoint”—a slide presentation that can work without electricity—to introduce our work and experience working at the intersections of art, ecology and activism. […]

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Søger Lejlighed #4

By Brett On 25 July, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Neighborhood, Public space

Warm weather has brought a flurry of Søger Bolig [Seeking Apartment] fliers to the streets of our quarter. This activity is a complicated process that makes you think of dating services that brings complete strangers together in a semi-public/private manner. We hope to continue documenting these fliers and will work to understand some […]

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Artist Parents: Us & Christa Donner

By Bonnie On 15 July, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Artist parents

Our friend, Christa Donner, interviewed us for her Cultural Reproducers blog project documenting artists who are also parents. You can read our interview here. Thanks for inviting us, Christa!

Christa is a Chicago based artist who works with organic imagery most often with ink on […]

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Søger Lejlighed #3

By Bonnie On 8 July, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood

I found a new poster in the neighborhood this week to add to the Søger Lejlighed (apartment hunting series). This one was a great find because of the personal photograph of the people searching + a nice drawing + a heartfelt letter. This flyer is one of my favorites […]

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What is in the Vorratskammer (Pantry)? On myvillages and feeding 8,000 people

By Bonnie On 25 June, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Book reviews, Growing, Kitchen

We expected 5,000 and 8, 000 came.

Wild boar meat (sausage, paté, etc.), homemade cheese, candied violets, 5kg garlic, 21 jars of plum jam, 4 liters rhubarb syrup, 6,000 Salanova lettuce heads, 25 kg pearl barley, 20 kg tomatoes, 1,000 chicken eggs, 50 kg carrots,10 liters pumpkin seed oil, and this […]

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The Bloomshed (bike shed with a green roof) at the Kultivator farm

By Brett On 21 June, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Agriculture, Artist parents, Design, Farms, Homesteading

In addition to the general richness of our recent visit to the Kultivator farm, we had the great experience of collaborating with Kultivator on building a bicycle shed with a green roof. We offered our labor in exchange for being fed and housed for the weekend. It was wonderful to be able to add to […]

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Søger Lejlighed #2

By Bonnie On 20 June, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood, Public space

Last week we posted about our obsession with these Søger Lelighed (Looking for an apartment) signs and we are back again this week with some more examples from around Copenhagen.

First up, we have this wheatpasted example from our neighborhood; there is a little bit missing so my translation will be slightly off.

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Go! Sheepies!: Visit to the Kultivator Farm in Sweden

By Bonnie On 19 June, 2013 · 4 Comments · In Agriculture, Artist parents, Farms, Habitat, Homesteading, Resilience

Like everything they do, the sign leading to the Kultivator Farm is infused with humor. Konst och grönt (Art and Vegetables), a play on the typical Swedish kiosk sign frukt och grönt (fruit and vegetables). “It’s nice to have a relative who works for the city. He just shows up with these signs. Doesn’t […]

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The Findhorn community in Scotland

By Brett On 17 June, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Homesteading

I visited the long-running—50+ years—intentional community and eco-village, Findhorn, in northern Scotland. I have known about the place for many years, but had not had the opportunity to visit until a couple of weekends ago. I was curious to see what was there. I had heard the myths about the founders and how the earth […]

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Migrating Back to WordPress

By Brett On 11 June, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In MISC

We moved the Mythological Quarter site onto Squarespace a few months ago. We have slowly grown frustrated with how limited it is and want the functionality and ability to customize things that WordPress offers. We are starting the process now. There might some glitches in our site for a couple of days.

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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:

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

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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

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    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.

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  • 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.
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