Interview: Sue Spaid
We recently had the privilege of talking with independent curator, Sue Spaid, on the occasion of the new exhibition at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots. The exhibition focuses on artists in relationship to agriculture, and runs from September 22-January 20, 2013 in […]
We went to DYRK Nørrebro today to plant Russian soybeans, an heirloom variety acclimated to far northern conditions. This is the very beginning of a long term project. We will post more about that later this week. DYRK is one of our favorite places in the city. Here you see a […]
Our friend, Ruth Kaaserer, makes thoughtful, meditative, documentary films. She agreed to share her recent film Commnunity Gardens (2010) here. The film follows the seasons in several of New York City’s community gardens. You meet the gardeners and hear their thoughts about growing in the city through the ambient soundtrack. Sounds of the […]
This Friday’s link love focuses on bees. We’ve found several bee related items around the web, a few of them local to Copenhagen.
Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary, friend and artist Juan Willam Chavez’s proposal for an urban bee sanctuary on a large lot in the city of St. Louis. The lot was formerly home […]
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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