Networked Forest

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]