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Children’s Book: There was once a…

By Bonnie On 22 May, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Artist parents, Book reviews, Books, Play

This beautiful and simple children’s book by Iela Mari was given to our daughter for her birthday. It is now one of her favorites.

 

Originally printed in Germany under the title Ein seeigel und was daraus wird, it was translated into Danish and printed by Martin Berg, as der var engang et søpindsvin in […]

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A is for Anthropocene

By Bonnie On 9 May, 2014 · 1 Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Exhibitions, Our Art Work

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 […]

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Palle Nielsen at Arken | Mythological Quarter

Models for a new society.

By Bonnie On 21 April, 2014 · 2 Comments · In Artist parents, Arts and culture, Exhibitions, Playground

Unleash children’s joy, fantasy, and creativity–then they are free, social, and curious children.” – Palle Nielsen

Living in Copenhagen now, there are a lot of options for children. Most neighborhoods have imaginative playgrounds with interactive play areas based on themes like a Bermuda Triangle shipwreck, […]

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Plants at YNKB | Mythological Quarter

The Secret Life of Plants

By Bonnie On 15 April, 2014 · 1 Comment · In Arts and culture, Neighborhood

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 […]

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The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson | Mythological Quarter

Rachel Carson’s radical perspective on the natural world

By Bonnie On 9 April, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Book reviews, Books, Design

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 […]

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Katherine Ball at YNKB | 12 Modes of Suppresion

12 Modes of Suppression with Katherine Ball

By Bonnie On 22 March, 2014 · 2 Comments · In Arts and culture, Exhibitions, Neighborhood

Traveling artist, environmental activist, and friend of the MQ, Katherine Ball was recently in Copenhagen on an artist residency. Ball put her series 12 Modes of Suppression  at YNKB, the very local (it’s right next door) art space and artist-activist meeting center.

She wrote this about the exhibition:

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Listen to Radio Aktiv’s “Sonic Deep Map” (2014)

By Brett On 19 March, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Our Art Work

This installment of Radio Aktiv’s “Sonic Deep Map” was made for recent transmission on Chicago via Radius’s GRIDS series.

Listen and let us know what you think.

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GRIDS Episode 48: Radio Aktiv “Sonic Deep Map”

By Brett On 18 March, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Our Art Work

Here are some images of the recent transmission of the Sonic Deep Map that Radio Aktiv (Bonnie Fortune, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Brett Bloom) made.  It was made to continue our support of people, like Pro Hanhikivi, who are fighting to stop the building of an unnecessary and unneeded nuclear power […]

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Valby Parken

Valby Park

By Bonnie On 11 March, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood, Playground

On the edge of Spring we took a tour to the edge of the city to celebrate. We visited Copenhagen’s second largest park–Valby Park (Valby Parken), reclaimed from an old landfill 75 years ago. This year the sprawling park is celebrating its diamond anniversary with events planned throughout the year, much of […]

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Makers in Copenhagen

By Bonnie On 28 February, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In MISC, Neighborhood

I visited Republikken for the first time, like many other people in Copenhagen, to have a meeting.  Republikken is the kind of space where people have meetings. It has a coffee bar, long wooden benches and counters with people working steadily on laptops. Several open workshops in the back on view where a […]

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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:

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

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    • 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.
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