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 […]
The Coastal Reading Group hosts three readers from three coasts who trouble the subjects of wilderness, speciation, humanness and ways of knowing through diverse engagements with (non)humans. bios Bibi Calderaro is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist and researcher whose work has been shown internationally since 1995 and most recently at PS1 MoMA and MinusSpace, NY. Curious […]
Connecting artistic ideas and procedural methods across disciplines, over time and in the studio Michael Shiloh, Margaretha Haughwout, J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira The Open Collaboration Lab is a hub for the study and practice of collaboration as it pertains to procedural art and algorithmic processes at California College of the Arts. This project emerges out of […]
I often collaborate with other artists, in big and small ways. Discussion and Sunset Walk, 2017 A discussion followed by a short neighborhood walk with Alicia Escott, Amber Hasselbring, Margaretha Haughwout, and Suzanne Husky, in the context of Alicia’s project Another Brief History of the Sunset. Suzanne and I harvested ice plant and experimented with […]
the birds the bees the flowers and the seeds is a narrative exploration of the relationship between desire, violence, and the uncanny, set in an installation space that is presented as a future garden. In this piece, a series of spoken fictional “scores” pipe through speakers that double as flower pots. Each of the scores […]
