February 2012
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Book Review: Post Carbon Reader
This collection of essays from the Post Carbon Institute (PCI), a think tank for creating a world beyond climate change, will change how you think about sustainability. The PCI is made up of thinkers from several different professions–economists, environmentalists, urban planners, farmers, activists, etc.–who are thinking beyond our current systems and ways of doing things. This book collects...
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Homemade Tofu
Brett has been making tofu, from scratch.
His investigation into this labor intensive process started because the store bought tofu selection in most Danish grocery stores is expensive and not so fresh. In fact, the selection, such as it is, includes one brand of lumpy grey tofu in a jar and that’s it. So, Brett looked up how to make your own tofu in our trusty Mark Bittman How to Cook...
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Geodesic Lamp
If you walk around our neighborhood at night, particularly during winter when it gets dark way too early, you will notice that in many apartments there are dramatic lamps hanging in the center of most rooms. Danes love beautiful, eccentric lamps. They seem to be an essential component in dealing with the long dark, grey winters here in Copenhagen.
We have a beautiful lamp that we found in a...
January 2012
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Erik Ruin's Little Lives
We recently received the finished copy of Erik Ruin’s beautiful, new ‘zine Little Lives in the mail. Ruin is a U.S. based artist who is part of the Justseeds collective. He visited us in Copenhagen last fall, while in Europe for a Justseeds exhibition.
At that time we were still involved with organizing a printshop/bookstore in Copenhagen’s Vesterbro neighborhood. The shop had...
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Metropolitan Habitat #10
This post is the tenth, and final post, in a series, to read more go here.
This is the tenth and final poster in the Metropolitan Habitat series. Tonight is the Artist’s Reception for the exhibition Lupification, or the Divide. Check it out if you are in the Pacific Northwest and if you can’t be there, grab the PDF, below.
Click here to access the PDF: Squirrels Poster
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Metropolitan Habitat #9
This post is the ninth in a series, to read more go here.
There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
Click here to access the PDF: Fox Poster
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Metropolitan Habitat #8
This post is the eighth in a series, to read more go here.
There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
Click here to access the PDF: Hawk Cam Poster
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Metropolitan Habitat #7
This post is the seventh in a series, to read more go here.
There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
Click here to access the PDF: Pizza bear poster
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Metropolitan Habitat #6
This post is the sixth in a series, to read more go here.
There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
Click here to access the PDF: Monk parakeets Poster
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Metropolitan Habitat #5
This post is the fifth in a series, to read more go here.
There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
Click here to access the PDF: Coyote Poster
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Metropolitan Habitat #4
This post is the fourth in a series, to read more go here.
There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
Click here to access the PDF: Raccoon Poster
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Metropolitan Habitat #3
This post is the third in a series, to read more go here.
There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
Click here to access the PDF: Polar Bear Poster
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Metropolitan Habitat #2
This post is the second in a series, to read more go here.
There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
Click here to access the PDF:Turkey Poster
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Metropolitan Habitat #1
I am part of a new exhibition at Clark College’s Archer Gallery in Vancouver, Washington. The show, titled Lupification, or the Divide, is curated by Blake Shell. Shell writes, “The artists in this exhibition approach humanity through its connection to or separation from the natural world. Each presents a unique perspective, whether exploring the relationship, seeking to understand,...
Organic Agriculture May Be Outgrowing Its Ideals →
”Krav, a major Swedish organic certification program, allows produce grown in greenhouses to carry its “organic” label only if the buildings use at least 80 percent renewable fuel, for example. ”
December 2011
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Small acts and restraints
A while ago, when we lived in Urbana, IL, I made this poster with my friend Micah Bornstein. It is a hand carved wood block plate print, with letterpress type, printed on a Vandercook proofpress. It says, “Preserve” at the top and, “a kitchencentric life” at the bottom. We made the poster to talk about becoming aware of place. Focusing on everyday activities like growing...
"Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice, Youth... →
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COP17 in Durban South Africa
Are you listening to Democracy Now’s coverage of the COP 17 meetings in Durban, South Africa?
Amazing interviews with climate scientists, activists, and others happening while Amy Goodman and Democracy Now are on the ground at the United Nations Climate Change Conference happening all week (28 November - 9 December 2011). The U.S. based radio program has so far produced some excellent...
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November 2011
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Interview: Katherine Ball
We met artist and activist Katherine Ball when she lived in Copenhagen in the fall of 2010. Ball made us a worm-compost bin as a present/art piece before leaving the country on other adventures. I checked back in with her a year later to see what she was up to because of our mutual interest in issues of art, ecology, and activism and, to no one’s surprise, Ball has been busy. In fact, she barely...
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Interview: Field Work
We talked with Danish artists, Field Work, about their collaboration and what projects they are working on right now. Field Work is Lise Skou and Nis Rømer. In addition to Field Work, Lise has worked with rum46, an artist run space in Aarhus, Denmark and Nis works with the independent curatorial project, Publik.
 Field Work started organically through other collaborative projects that Lise and...
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Pedal Power at Occupy Wall Street
We have been following the Occupy Wall Street movement from the Mythological Quarter here in Copenhagen as it has spread around the world. It has been an amazingly heartening experience to see Occupy actions springing up in towns and cities globally as well as the good things that are coming out of the movement. Things like the General Strike in Oakland, CA, Bank Transfer Day (5 November in the...
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Book Review: Cultural Practices within and Across
Cultural Practices within and Across (2010) answers the question, ‘What is deglobalisation?’
Cultural Practices within and Across (2010) is a compendium of European trans-local cultural production; a useful handbook for looking at ‘the role of culture in a society which faces a number of economic, social, political and environmental crises.’ The book was edited by the...
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Internet love
This week we have gotten quite a bit of love from around the Net.
Here are links to two posts about the Mythological Quarter:
Interview by Bryce Dwyer on Chicago’s Bad at Sports art blog.
Justseeds Mary Tremonte gives us a shout out on the Justseeds blog, a great source for open source political graphics btw.
Thanks folks!
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October 2011
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Interview: Kerianne Quick, Source Matters
Kerianne Quick is an artist who knows how to drive a bulldozer, and also a forklift. A clue that it is important for her to take matters into her own hands. This independent spirit has led her to develop her current body of work, Source Matters.
Quick visited us at the Mythological Quarter from Amsterdam, where she is currently doing a research fellowship in the Dutch design and materialsmith...
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Resourced Portfolio in Copenhagen
We are super excited to have Shaun Slifer and Mary Tremonte in town from Justseeds. The pair will be hanging the RESOURCED portfolio at YNKB, our next door neighbor art space.
The RESOURCED opening will be at YNKB, 15 October kl. 18:00-21:00. Shaun and Mary will present a talk about Justseeds starting at 19:00.
A little about Justseeds:
“Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a...
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Book Review: Toolbox for Sustainable City Living
In 2000, Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew along with several others started the Rhizome Collective in an old warehouse in Austin, TX. A consensus based collective, the group worked to rebuild the warehouse and experiment with what they were calling “sustainable city living.” The group came together from several different activist movements, but the focus of the research at the...
September 2011
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Interview: Kultivator at alt_cph
Kultivator is a collective of people living and working in rural Sweden on a farm. They are a family-sisters, husbands, children. They are also artists. Their art practice is centered on art and agriculture. In fact, they even staged a wedding between art and agriculture in 2010. Last weekend the Mythological Quarter attended Copenhagen’s alternative art fair, alt_cph 11: Encounters where we...
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Lexicon of Sustainabilty
We found this website, the Lexicon of Sustainabilty which is seeking to use cultural production to share ideas for structuring the world in a more environmentally friendly way. So, is it working?
The project seems to be funded in a large part by Google. Not sure how to feel about that but the website itself is attractive. Additionally, there are other funders like the Post Carbon Institute who are...
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"A lot" of new poster to download
Here in Copenhagen, this week marks the opening of alt_CPH 11 Encounters, the alternative art fair. The fair takes place at Fabrikken for Kunst og Design (Factory of Art and Design) and includes artists from the U.S. and Nordic countries. The Mythological Quarter is excited to be participating.
Anja Franke and Marie Brun Ydde co-organized alt_CPH 11 Encounters with the help of the Fabrikken...
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Fødevarefællesskab
Fødevarefællesskab literally translates into “Food Community.” It is, in fact, a food co-op. Basically, a buying club style co-op. Every week members can pick up a huge bag of produce fresh from Danish farms. We joined the Fødevarefællesskab at the Nørrebro location. Joining means that you pay 100DKK/week and volunteer 3 hours per month to work.
Here is our first bag:
It contained...
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Calm the traffic
What is a better way to calm down traffic on a busy street? Cities use speed bumps or concrete stanchions. If neighbors take traffic into their own hands, they are likely to get more creative.
For example, Portland, Oregon’s City Repair, is famous for their colorfully painted traffic calming projects. Giant sunflowers painted in a roundabout quickly slow down busy city streets. The...
August 2011
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Living Structure as bar
We have written before about using the Ken Isaacs designed Living Structures system in our home. The simple grid based system can be used as a starting point for necessary things from shelving to the construction of whole houses. Currently, a Living Structure inspired system is our bed/shelving, providing a more efficient use of space in our bedroom. We have also used the Living Structure system...
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Pepperz
The first time we visited Dyrk Nørrebro, the local urban garden on the roof of a school, one of the gardeners gave us a pepper plant. The little plant was wilty and all of the peppers were green. It had been growing since April with not a single ripe pepper. This summer in Copenhagen has been very wet with not a lot of sun. The peppers were not able to ripen in the elements available on the...
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Haven, an art garden event
HAVEN is an exhibition in a garden. It was curated by the gardener.
Friday night we stopped by the HAVEN opening at B-huset, an artist run building that houses artists’ studios and events. B-huset is an old school building and the studios are in the old classrooms. A community as well as a space for work, B-huset artist, Anne Skole Overgaard made the garden of raised beds in front of the...
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Lexicon of Sustainability
foodramblings:
Just stumbled on this project through Grist. The Lexicon of Sustainability has some beautiful images. Have a look at the site - it has some great material
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