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 […]
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:
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 […]
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 […]
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 [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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
HOT COMPOST! combines core body strengthening exercises with the contemplation of rapid and radical decomposition, transformation, and the poetics of the rotten. HOT COMPOST! is a collaboration between Elodie Fourquet, Brynn Hatton, Margaretha Haughwout, and Dawn Weleski and occurs at multiple sites throughout Madison County, NY (Oneida territory, Susquehanna watershed). We frequently have HOT COMPOST! […]
The artist Chelsea Willis invited me to contribute a work for her publication, in collaboration with artists Erica Thomas and Emily Fitzgerald of MATTER in Portland, on Feminist Labor, Embodiment & Pleasure. The book is forthcoming. I took the opportunity to visualize the thinking and work I have been doing regarding guerrilla food forestry in […]
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 […]