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Local artist, Camilla Berner has released a new book documenting her 2011 project Black Box Garden. The book is an English translation of the blog she kept during the run of the project. It includes beautiful photographs of the garden in process and tells about her daily interactions with the citizens […]
The edge effect is this idea that the more edge you create, the more biodiversity you create, where a meadow meets a forest or a piece of water meets a meadow. Two different ecologies meet. Two different kinds of landscapes meet … that is where you find the most biodiversity at that edge.
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Saturdays in Roskilde include a farmer’s market, shopping trips, and ice cream stops. This past Saturday was no different except it was also the ACTS 2014 performance festival, hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art. Strange droning sounds, pop up performances, and repetitive motions happened around the city. For our contribution to the festival, Brett […]
Brett and I have been artists in residency at the Danish Art Workshops (Statens Værksteder for Kunst) for the past several weeks. We are preparing for an upcoming performance project as part of the 2014 Acts Performance Festival at the Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art. For our project, we decided to […]
In “There is no such thing as nature,” his curatorial essay for the Radical Nature exhibition (2009, Barbican, London), Francesco Manacorda criticizes the historical, philosophical opposition between nature and culture, saying that this false dichotomy absolves human society of both a relationship and a responsibility to the natural world.
Manacorda goes on to cite […]
Brooklyn based filmmaker and animator Akiko McQuerrey has a new film called Papa Cloudy’s Restaurant. Papa Cloudy, a mustached stuffed cloud, is known for putting his heart into everything he does, including running a restaurant focused on serving a sustainable menu. McQuerrey’s lovable Papa Cloudy character is moved to change the restaurant’s […]
I’m reading this book right now: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.The author Richard Louv looks at the psychological effects of spending time in the natural world, which you may have guessed tend to be overwhelmingly positive for children and adults, improving creativity, mood, and social […]
The book Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook is out of print. Edited by Max Andrews and released in 2006, the book was part of the enviable Art & Ecology series initiated by The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce […]
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 […]
On September 8, Sunday, the first broadcast was made of the Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map, a radio show created for broadcast made up of various recorded material gathered at the Case Pyhäjoki camp for artists, theorists, scholars, cultural producers, and activists to respond to the threat of nuclear power in […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
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