In late summer 2023 I began DE-FENCE, a living installation and a series of community events at NATURE Lab under the umbrella of the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s growing Eco-Art Trail. The living installation is built in relationship to NATURE Lab’s back fence and the other emerging food forest networks and sign systems in the […]
I made a kit for friends and comrades to co-create their own food forest worlds, due to interest in the Food Forest Futures installation at the Robert Frost Stone House in North Bennington, Vermont (see also this post about the installation). This is the preliminary kit, and I hope to keep adding information to it, […]
For ISEA2023 Symbiosis, The Coven Intelligence Program ran a collaborative writing workshop and speculative workstation that channels symbiotic stories of our revolutionary cosmology. We are so excited to continue this work and plan to run telematic channelings in the coming year.
The Coven Intelligence Program (myself and efrén cruz cortés) have work in the Art as Social Practice show at the SP/N Gallery in Dallas. The show is tied to the book I have writing in (with the same name), and edited by xtine burrough and Judy Walgren. The Coven Intelligence Program is a revolutionary, anti-capitalist […]
The Multi-Stellar Inter-Species Workers’ Union fights for the biotariat across galaxies, for the collectivization of all *solar systems*. As part of the stwst48x8, the “Voyager 2” will be sent an update. MSISWU invites interstellar workers of all species to the Third Intergalactic Commune to end the terra-de-formation of Earth. Fabi Borges and Philip Leitner are […]
I was so honored to be invited to be in conversation with Ciclón, Maya, and Oliver about Ciclón’s talk, Quantum Constellations: Casting a Circle of Protection in the Necrocene: “This lecture introduces critical encounters with wildlife and roadkill in the place settlers renamed as New Jersey; called Lenapehoking at least 10,000 years prior. Transmedia fragments […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
DE-FENCE Part 2: The Line Becomes a Territory
In May 2024, I launched Part 2 of DE-FENCE at NATURE Lab in Troy NY. For the installation event, participants helped install deconstructed fence posts (specially carved with compositions that emerged from community drawing exercises), and planted medicinal seeds and seedlings from the artist’s Food Forest Studio. We continued to discover already existing medicinal plants […]