Local artist, Arendse Krabbe gave a presentation about her research into plants, emotional connections with have them, and collective process, on April 9th at YNKB, the artist run space here in the neighborhood.
Arendse asked the audience to bring a special plant to her evening presentation. One with a […]
Pumpkin’s Giving
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, […]
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 […]
Edible Estates Denmark
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 […]
Oda Projesi at Astrid Noaks Atelier
Oda Projesi is Özge Açıkkol, Güneş Savaş and Seçil Yersel. They are early pioneers of what is now called socially engaged art practice by many. Their collaboration began in a room in Istanbul in 2000. Seriously, their name translates as “Room Project” from Turkish. You can watch a talk given […]
A MQ friend, JP Goguen, library and information scientist by day and wild world enthusiast in his off hours, has a new foraging project. Goguen has been using social media to share information about wild plants–their names, what they look like, and when to forage them. He posts about wild “weeds” like garlic […]
Friday Connect: Agri-cultural
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 […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
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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.
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."
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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