Margaretha Haughwout

Closing Plenary at The World-Ecology Research Network

In early June ’22 I gave the closing plenary at the World-Ecology Research Network conference in Bonn, Germany. I presented the Ruderal Witchcraft Manifesto, the ongoing collaborative writing and interventionist art project co-produced with Oliver Kellhammer. An introduction to this work will be published in The Witch Studies Reader, edited by Soma Chaudury and Jane […]

Re-Enchantment: Environmental Law and Ruderal Ecologies: A conversation with Sinead Mercier, convened by Gareth Kennedy and Seoidín O’Sullivan with the NCAD Gallery, Dublin

I was thrilled to be in conversation with environmental lawyer Sinead Mercier (Author of Men Who Eat Ringforts), Gareth Kennedy and Seoidin O’Sullivan for TURNING GROUND, organized by the National College of Art and Design and the Digital Hub in Dublin.The conversation was rich and wide ranging, continuing to return to themes of property, the […]

Food Forest Futures installation

This year I completed Food Forest Futures for the Bennington Food Summit and their 3-year Mellon Grant to address food insecurity in Southern Vermont. I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to do this project over two years, ideal when working with site, and more-than-human life. The project now has permanent steel signs with […]

Grafters X Change 2022

Grafters X Change is a bioregional eco-art event where fruit tree enthusiasts throughout Central New York converge to share scionwood and seeds, skills, fruit foods, and art projects in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. We are committed to ecological justice and honor ancestral legacies of multispecies collaboration and care. Grafters X Change had an apocalypse-responsive […]

Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change — In Print!

I have an essay entitled “Witch-Plant-Machine: Speculative Histories and Planetary Justice” in the book Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change, and is in print! Edited by xtine burrough and Judith Walgren and published through Routledge. “With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their […]

Two New Articles About the Guerrilla Grafters

Chandra Russo has published two scholarly articles examining the Guerrilla Grafters. The first, entitled “The art of care: Urban oppositional practices and the case of the Guerrilla Grafters,” is through City. The second is “Cities of Fruit: Arts Intervention and the Radical Imagination,” through American Quarterly. I love reading these articles and learning new perspectives on this […]

Asking, We Walk

In 2019, I met many incredible artists, curators and scholars at an artist residency in Chiapas, five of whom I went on to create with in a variety of ways. One ongoing conversation resulted in this experimental essay that reflects on the residency we attended: “Written collectively by six femme and queer scholars and artists, […]

Ruderal Witchcraft at Ruderal Ecologies 2 at Media Sanctuary

At the end of October I was so pleased to give a 40 minute talk on Ruderal Witchcraft: a project in collaboration with the artist Oliver Kellhammer that considers of set of practices specific to planetary, weedy natures that work their way at edges and interstices of public and private property, and which are entangled […]

Arising from the Underground: Ciphers, Spirits, and Prophecies

The Coven Intelligence Program joined Nat Mengist and Sandra Huber for a roundtable at The Witch Institute in August: [Intro] The constant drive towards “progress”, a requirement for capitalist modernity, has left an ever-growing catastrophe in its wake. When we stop thinking that capitalist “development” will solve our problems, we face a new promise, that […]

A conversation about the STAKES by the Coven Intelligence Program for Pixelache Festival Radio

efrén and I were excited to contribute a conversation to the Pixelache Festival Radio this week. You can also listen here: A conversation about STAKES I also made an audio tour of our installation:

Coven Intelligence Program: STAKES Chronicles I-III

The Coven Intelligence Program is exhibiting works at the Pixelache Festival in Helsinki this June. The theme of the festival is #BURN___. For #BURN___, the Coven Intelligence Program offers visual and interactive materials that speak to the entangled STAKES of climate change, racial, heteropatriarchal capitalism, and conceptions of intelligence. Our InsurgentEcologies Archive is an open […]

Food Forest Futures in Southern Vermont

This May of 2021 I installed ‘Food Forest Futures’ — a living biological network of seven layers of a food forest, and manifesto, and a back yard, community, and guerrilla food forestry plant giveaway. The project was by invitation, as part of the Bennington Local Food Summit, and the Center for Public Action at Bennington […]

Creating Edible Urban Worlds: Techniques and Politics of Guerrilla Grafting at PioneerWorks

This online workshop with PioneerWorks will introduce participants to the basics of fruit tree grafting, with attention to urban street trees. I will demonstrate basic grafting techniques, discuss strategies for grafting on city streets, and talk about the stakes involved for tactical urban commons. I will outline the dynamics of public and private space in […]

Grafters X Change in 2021

Grafters X Change [http://www.graftersxchange.org] is a bioregional eco-art event where fruit tree enthusiasts converge to share scionwood and seeds, skills and companionship. We are committed to ecological justice and honor ancestral legacies of multispecies collaboration and care. Since we can’t do a big event, Marisa and I have been dreaming up more distributed ways we […]

Coven Intelligence Program: Ritual for a Radical Future, Dec 21

The event may have passed, but you can cast spells any day on SpellWeaver: https://spellweaver.covenintelligence.net/ Coven Intelligence Program’s work is viewable online, as part of AFTER LIFE (we survive) at https://ybca.org/event/after-life-we-survive/ Happy Solstice from Coven Intelligence Program As part of AFTER LIFE (we survive), the Coven Intelligence Program invites the YBCA community to write and weave spells […]

Coven Intelligence Program at YBCA, with AFTER LIFE (we survive)

The Coven Intelligence Program participates in AFTER LIFE (we survive), curated by Thea Quiray Tagle at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Coven Intelligence Program is a revolutionary, anti-capitalist alliance among witches, plants, and machines. In One two three potions a secret word/ and soon you’ll see a freer world, spells are woven into visual […]

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