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Happy holidays from the Mythological Quarter. We would like to thank you all for following along here during 2012. We look forward to sharing more local happenings, art, and ecology news, as well as entries into our new Artist Parents series over 2013. We have a lot planned including a report on the […]
BIRD HABITAT: FOUND vs. DESIGNED
By Bonnie On 20 December, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space
A big obsession of ours is urban habitat–animal and human made. We think about cities that are designed to accommodate both human and animal populations in a sustainable and thoughtful manner. We have made our own urban animal habitat projects, so we are interested when […]
On a daily walk around the neighborhood, I noticed an urban habitat site that I hadn’t seen before.
A metal tower is playing host to this large bush. The tower’s primary purpose is holding up the street lighting architecture, but it’s secondary purpose has overtaken […]
This homemade bench appeared on our street a few months ago. We finally remembered to take a photo of it. It is quite chunky and out of place where is sits, but it seems like it is sturdy gets a lot of use. Several benches like this have appeared and disappeared from our […]
Astrid Noacks Atelier, at Rådmandsgade 34, was the studio of celebrated Danish sculptress, Astrid Noack from 1936-1950. Astrid loved the Ydre Nørrebro neighborhood we now call home. She was inspired by the wealth of activity–tradesmen, shopkeepers, children, families–in and around her little studio. The tiny room, kept warm with […]
Halloween struck in the Mythological Quarter last night.
We started off with a pumpkin carving workshop at YNKB , a long time art space in the MQ run by a large network of artists. It is an open cultural space that hosts sporadic art shows, talks, screenings, and events.
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Mythological Quarter neighbors and friends, Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung, have opened a new exhibition space in the neighborhood. The pair have long collaborated under the name itinerant_sends_for_itinerant, and they chose this name for their new space at Borups Allé 31. The name refers to a person who […]
We snapped this picture at a local bar in our neighborhood on one of our daily walks. The sign says “Ja til øller, Nej til bøller,” which translates as “Yes to beer, No to bullies.” These signs came up after a local controversy about gangs […]
This viking is holding up a dragon ( hard to see in these photos).
He lives on Rådmansgade, holding up the dragon at the entrance to a school. The viking adds fantasy to our daily walks through the Mythological Quarter.
Svensk sojabønner / Swedish soybeans
By Bonnie On 16 October, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Dirt, Environmental activism, Growing, Neighborhood, Sojabønner
This summer we grew soybeans at Nørrebro’s rooftop garden, DYRK. They were heirloom Swedish soy beans (also known as Glycine Max) named Fiskeby III (there are numerous varieties of Fiskeby) from a seed archive in Russia called the N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (designated […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
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.
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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