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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 […]
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 […]
Cultural Practices within and Across (2010) answers the question, ‘What is deglobalisation?’
Cultural Practices within and Across (2010) is a compendium of European trans-local cultural production; a useful handbook for looking at ‘the role of culture in a society which faces a number of economic, social, political […]
Kerianne Quick is an artist who knows how to drive a bulldozer, and also a forklift. A clue that it is important for her to take matters into her own hands. This independent spirit has led her to develop her current body of work, Source Matters.
Quick visited us at the Mythological […]
This is the 3rd and final part of the report back on Giving Harbor.
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Giving Harbor continued.
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A defaced Konservative Folkeparti [Conservative Peoples’ Party] poster across from the sign — the party was summarily trounced in the elections.
We learned later that the Conservative Peoples’ Party was having their election night party at the Marriott hotel. Permission […]
We have a deep interest in working in public spaces, of making art that lives outside of the elite, privileged spaces of artistic reception, and dwells in the world in many diverse ways. From time to time, we will report on our own individual projects within the context of the Mythological Quarter.
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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