Art and Ecology on Bad at Sports, and a recent essay series with OS’ Field Notes
An interview with Randall Szott and the folks at Bad at Sports, along with Sarah Nelson Wright of Chance Ecologies, and Francesca Fiore and Hillary Wagner of Soil Series. We speak on the topics of Art and Ecology, and what Szott calls 'soil practice,' as an extension of social ...
Trees of Tomorrow at Open Engagement
Trees of Tomorrow: A speculative tour and workstation unearths the hidden politics of ornamental street trees in Flushing, Queens: the ways that ornamental street trees shape and are shaped by neighborhoods, soils, economies. This project has many origin stories. It is ...
‘Intelligence’ at Guapamacataro Arts and Ecology Center Residency
I am developing a new creative work, currently untitled, to be conducted over the next two years. It explores the relationship between artificial intelligence and plant intelligence through a science fictive, dystopian prompt. I am eager to think through the ways nature is ...
Trees of Tomorrow
I am excited to launch a new project, Trees of Tomorrow, in collaboration with Cody Herrmann and Julian Phillips of Social Practice Queens, Gregory Sholette and Randall Szott, Guerrilla Grafters, and the John Bowne Agricultural High School. True to form, it is a sprawling ...
Multispecies Worlding, Eco-Art, and Solidarity in a More-than-human Capitalocene
This month, we will ask about radical aesthetics, ecological arts practices, multispecies worldings, and the possibilities for survival in the epoch many, including Jason W. Moore and Donna Haraway, term the Capitalocene. Those of us who align with nonhuman others in resistance, ...
New courses and projects
I am teaching two new courses this fall at Colgate, Basic Studio and Digital Studio. We are spray painting the tunnels beneath Colgate with images of extinct animals, exploring how avant garde art practices connect to digital practice, and pushing our understanding of the role ...
Cybernetic Capitalism, the Nature/Culture Binary, an Ethics of Difference
This was the title of a talk I gave at the Third Annual World Ecology Research Network Symposium. It was an honor to present some new thinking at this symposium, directed by Jason W. Moore. I am so excited to put my work and the work of many other multi-species artists in dialog ...
A spreading thing that addresses spreading things
A discussion followed by a short neighborhood walk with Alicia Escott, Amber Hasselbring, Suzanne Husky, and myself in the context of Escott’s larger project Another Brief History of the Sunset. Suzanne and I harvested and experimented with ice plant, a rampant botanical ...
In Colombia: Conflict Collapse and Care / Natural Resistance
As a Guerrilla Grafter I traveled to Colombia to facilitate a discussion on how specific cultivation practices can resist capitalist regimes of sterility and control, to present how to graft urban fruit trees, and to teach participants how to employ their internet tools and ...
Guerrilla Grafters with 100 Days action at Southern Exposure
100 Days Action "is a counternarrative to the Trump administration’s one hundred day plan.... Whereas the President’s 100 Days will seek to dismantle restrictions that protect our environment, public education, health, and jeopardize unprotected minority groups, 100 Days ...
Topics in Permaculture at CCA this Spring
So excited to be teaching a new course called Topics in Permaculture this Spring. Students are learning whole systems design through an understanding of patterns in nature, climates and microclimates, food forest guilds, and flows of water, for example. We get outside to examine ...
Two classes this Fall
Networks and Connectivity: This course is a co-taught foundations course that explores "human connectivity and technological networks, which replicate ongoing problems of colonization, modernity as well as opportunities for new understanding of conflict, difference, governance ...
We Weave and Heft by the River — in Devon, June 2016
The Coastal Reading Group traveled to Devon, England in June to explore the role of grief for the loss of the non-human in this specific historic and cultural moment. Bibi and I came to Devon a week in advance to sleep on the land and understand local relationships to sheep, ...
May on EMPYRE: Social Practice and Social Reproduction
I am excited and honored to be in dialog with artist and poet Margaret Rhee in the third week of May on the -empyre- list. We will be discussing Social Practice and Social Reproduction, and in the host Kyle McKinley's words "thinking about ... social forms which, like the ...
Unearth/ Re-earth by the Coastal Reading Group at Undisciplined Environments in Stockholm
The Coastal Reading Group scooped up soil, seeds and clay in Stockholm this week for UNDISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENTS: International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE). We culled from the texts we've been reading -- texts about human ...
