Margaretha Haughwout cultivates distributed, tactical approaches to the interconnected issues of our time/s. She works across technologies and ecologies, to instigate a collective, radical imagination that antagonizes proprietary regimes and the eco-social relations driven by the commodity form. This work manifests as intervention, distributable materials, living installation, digital artifact, participatory event, as experimental pedagogy, and rumour.

Margaretha's active collaborations include the Coven Intelligence Program, with efrén cruz cortés — a coven that uncovers revolutionary ecologies of work between witches, plants, and machines; the Guerrilla Grafters, who graft fruit-bearing branches onto ornamental street trees to reclaim the urban food commons; and Ruderal Witchcraft, with Oliver Kellhammer, a practice rooted in the weedy, persistent natures that push through the edges and interstices of public and private property, entangled with the human and non-human outcasts of capitalist modernity.

Her independent projects include the Food Forest Studio in Central New York, which serves as a base for ongoing practice, and the biannual Grafters X Change, which gathers bioregional eco-artists and fruit tree enthusiasts to advance tactical food forestry toward abundant futures. Additional works include Food Forest Futures in North Bennington, Vermont, and DE-FENCE, part of the Sanctuary for Independent Media's Eco-Art Trail in Troy, NY.

Margaretha's personal and collaborative culture work is exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently, at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY, Stadtwerkstatt in Linz Austria, International Symposium of Electronic Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The most meaningful work often happens tactically or in secret, with no funding or attention. Margaretha received her MFA from the University of California Santa Cruz, and conducts ongoing critical study of cybernetics, anti-capitalist magic, permaculture and herbalism. In her studio classes at Colgate University, she draws connections between avant-garde legacies, emerging media, unfolding eco-social crisis, and collaboration.

contact: margaretha.anne.haughwout@gmail.com
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