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Black Box Garden | A new book by artist, Camilla Berner

By Bonnie On 19 December, 2014 · 3 Comments · In Arts and culture, Book reviews, Books, Environmental activism, Habitat, Interviews, Neighborhood, Public space

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 […]

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Haute Diversité with Åsa Sonjasdotter

Les pommes de terre with Åsa Sonjasdotter

By Bonnie On 17 December, 2014 · 1 Comment · In Agriculture, Arts and culture, Growing, Resilience

The plain brown bag is adorned with a reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh’s Les Mangeurs de pomme de terre (The Potato Eaters), 1885. Although this version of The Potato Eaters is a reproduction of the lithograph,  Van Gogh first painted a version of this image after a trip to Paris.  […]

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An Edge Effect: Art & Ecology in the Nordic Landscape

By Bonnie On 26 November, 2014 · 3 Comments · In Arts and culture, Books, Environmental activism, Interviews, Personal - Design/Art

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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Bonnie Fortune Greenhouse Artist Talks

An artist talk in a greenhouse…

By Bonnie On 12 November, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Our Art Work

I recently participated in the Greenhouse Artist Talks in Malmö, Sweden. Independent curator and researcher, Veronica Wiman is organizing this series of intimate gatherings in the Slottsrädgården greenhouse near Malmö’s main train station. Wiman, who has worked at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco and for several years in Cali, Columbia, is […]

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Learning carefully from the sea, its vast silences & ancient stories

By Brett On 8 July, 2014 · 2 Comments · In Arts and culture, Our Art Work, Sea Side, Water

I recently conducted a two-day workshop in Helsinki, on two different islands in the Baltic sea, with 10 participants. The workshop was coordinated with the exhibition Dissolving Frontiers, one of many exhibitions, incubators, projects, and more that are part of Frontiers in Retreat, […]

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De-Industrializing Subjectivity, Restoring Senses and Telling New Stories

By Brett On 23 June, 2014 · 1 Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Exhibitions, Workshop

Brett Bloom will lead a two-day workshop De-Industrializing Subjectivity, Restoring Senses and Telling New Stories which will be realised in Suomenlinna, Helsinki on Wednesday–Thursday, 2–3 July, 2014. If you are interested in participating in the workshop, inquiries can be sent to info(at)hiap.fi by 25 June, 2014.

What kinds […]

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Alphabet of the Anthropocene | Mythological Quarter

The Powerless Powerpoint lives!

By Bonnie On 17 June, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Artist parents, Arts and culture, Exhibitions, Our Art Work, Public space

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 […]

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Redesign of our Let’s Re-Make site

By Brett On 13 June, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Our Art Work

For the past month, Bonnie has been hard working on a complete overhaul of our Let’s Re-Make web site. It is now a more clear repository for the art works we make and the initiatives we are active in. Bonnie updated everything making a better interface for […]

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Dissolving Frontiers, HIAP, Helsinki

By Brett On 28 May, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Exhibitions

Bonnie and I are excited to have work in this exhibition. We will be presenting a couple of our Powerless Powerpoints. We will post photos at a later date. Brett will be leading a 2-day workshop. More details to follow.

Dissolving Frontiers, the fifth annual summer exhibition at HIAP takes a look at […]

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Treehouse Bed | Mythological Quarter

Treehouse Bed

By Bonnie On 25 May, 2014 · 2 Comments · In Artist parents, Play

We’ve been building A. a new bed. We wanted it to be a bed of dreams! It had to be a place for her to tuck in and hide. I remember cubby holes and hiding places being the best when I was small. The bed area would double as her bedroom in the corner of […]

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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:

    The Library Of Radiant Optimism ... guide

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

  • Most Read:

    • The Garden of Exile The Garden of Exile
    • Living Structure making the rounds. Living Structure making the rounds.
    • Rhubarb/Rabarber Rhubarb/Rabarber
    • Making the Geologic Now Making the Geologic Now
    • Interview: Katherine Ball Interview: Katherine Ball
  • Get Out There

    • Buster Simpson
    • Case Pyhäjoki
    • City Repair
    • Dwelling Portably
    • DYRK Nørrebro
    • Erthonaut
    • Futurefarmers
    • Herbologies / Foraging Network
    • Justseeds
    • Kultivator
    • Københavns Fødevarefællesskab (KBHFF)
    • Let's Re-Make
    • Lexicon of Sustainability
    • Root Simple
    • Spontaneous Vegetation
    • Urban Agriculture DK
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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

    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.

    Get a copy of the book!


  • 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.
    • Read our review of the book.
    • Buy the book.
    • Download the book.


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