Grafters X Change: Branches and Networks is an eco-art event on March 29th and 30th 2019 where fruit tree enthusiasts throughout Central New York converge to share scionwood and seeds, skills, fruit foods, and art projects in a collaborative, DIY, and interdisciplinary setting. scion branch and seed exchange hands-on demonstrations and workshops eco-art events walking […]
Trees of Tomorrow: The Hidden Politics of Ornamental Street Trees, 2018 Margaretha Haughwout in collaboration with Cody Ann Herrmann and Julian Louis Phillips of the Social Practice Queens MFA program; Larissa Li, Angelica ‘Noguera, Diana Vazguez, Gabriella Heyward, Antonio Crespo, and Destiny Irazarry of the John Bowne High School Agricultural Department in Flushing, Queens; and […]
I was so honored to collaborate with Mark Read, Kathy Engels, and Pamela Jean Tinnen on the Ghostfishing: Eco-Justice Poetry and the Diasporic City project at NYU in September. … … “Seen here across thirteen window vitrines are site-specific artworks: eleven poems and excerpts of poems that inspired their accompanying installations. Through engagement with the […]
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 arts practice: “The imaginative and practical […]
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 linked to the Guerrilla Grafters, and our politicization/ protest of ornamentality and sterility of […]
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 cultivated under late capitalism in different parts of the globe, and how […]
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 collaboration. “Trees of Tomorrow is a guided, speculative tour of the […]
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, revolution, and recuperation [1] often rally around sociopolitical acts of worlding; we might […]
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 of art in society. …
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 with Revolutionary […]
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 figure that climbs all over the dunes of San Francisco’s Outer Sunset, and […]
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 different kinds of tagging — from graffiti to electronics — to […]
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 Action is a forum for resistance, an artistic coming together, an exercise in endurance, a call to […]
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 our built and natural environment a lot, and are developing proposals […]
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 and protest.” Visualizing Bodies of Information: In this class, we will be talking about and making with data…. We will […]
Sowing Against Systems, Branches vs Networks, Unearthing Slowness
I did a talk this spring for the Colgate Art & Art History Lecture Series entitled “Sowing Against Systems, Branches vs Networks, Unearthing Slowness:”