Starting from the recordings’ sonograms - a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies in a sound - he translated them into ASCII. The musicians allowed him to photograph them and record the thirty-five songs of their repertoire, provided that they will never be shared nor published. The Forgotten Melodies of Pleng Arak, Engraved sand and limestone - 30x40 cm, 2019 © Sébastien Robert. She uses the sewing machine as a tool to mix colours and ‘paint’ with a free-hand style using threads and vintage fabrics. There, perched on the railing, a great bird greeted me. Part document, part diary, archetypal stories from deep history combine ancestral voices with those of contemporary authors. US Food Patent (detail), n.3 photos + n.3 tubes + 3 seeds, 2009. The seeds are suspended in pure honey; which acts as a preserving agent. Ambrosial Hour, 2018, Installation view of 2 works, Red Gold Leaf and Yellow Gold Leaf, various seeds, paper, cardboard, oak wood frame, 120 x 120 x 3 cm, 3. Trees Wood & People. Through collaborative and community art projects that range from propagating rare seeds in partnership with national heirloom banks, to public events featuring the untold narratives of women in agriculture, we make visible, and propose solutions to, the modes of production that exploit the labors of women and nature. My artistic research focuses on reprocessing social, political and environmental themes and on synthesizing ethno-cultural codes, investigated during journeys and several artist residencies program all around the world. Agro-biodiversity is an important aspect of agricultural sustainability, for this reason new edible plants is considered an efficient strategy for food safety. Jarmo, a neolithic farming site in Kurdistan’s foothills, is believed to be one of the world’s earliest farming villages. 12”x12” 2013. Bio: Paul Chartrand engages with environmental issues through the construction of sculptural life support apparatuses populated with living plants. Rondout Valley Growers. 4. Folding lattice for agriculture in dry areas II: 13"x14," pen and ink, 2018, Bio: Mollie Goldstrom's recent art practice explores seaweed as an object of curiosity, optimism, and transcendence and a reflection of human and environmental exploitation and devastation. Each work has the potential to yield plants of diverse colors and sizes specifically curated to nourish the soil and feed the bees in the area where the work is exhibited. 1. [BV], There are two kinds of writers in the world, those who like to say things like “there are two kinds …”, and those who don’t. Hoping to mitigate the casualties, a leading scientist buried a cache of seeds in her basement for safekeeping. That summer she wrote her influential novel Frankenstein. Ingredients: Borage, calamint, calendula, clary sage, feverfew, nasturtium, pennyroyal, rue, tansy, tulsi, and yarrow, 2018. Maggie Puckett and Melissa H. Potter creating handmade paper seed packets out of corn stalks, husks, and leaves, 2016. And Lucy Davis has an elaborate project, set in a corner of Singapore that has undergone dramatic social and environmental change, which explores the relations between people and birds, nature and culture. This bird could have flown from as far south as Panama, following a compass and clock nobody completely understands. For instance, Aristotle argued that what distinguished us humans from other living creatures was not our intelligence or morality, but our laughter — he claimed no other animal laughed or appreciated humour. 2. Wheat Mandala Series is an artist’s response to agricultural data developed by Dr. Jaime Larson and Dr. Andre Laroche from the Lethbridge Research and Development Centre in Canada. 1. Forced labour in Asia comes under fresh scrutiny: Will countries and companies pay a price? [LWC], In an interview, novelist Richard Powers said: “The idea that we are exceptional and independent and autonomous has created a culture in which these great, teeming, reciprocal communities of living things became nothing but commodities which we could use with impunity, as if somehow the very cycles of interdependence were no longer something that we had to answer to.” [BV], When I think of artists who have listened to birds, two immediately come to mind. This is the home page's excerpt. Weaving notions of our current ecological crisis with Berlin’s history of violence raises the question: Is the demise of social and environmental relationships inextricably linked? This series of drawings considers seeds in their symbolic form and brings together elements of our shared human histories. Traveler’s Palm – Ravenala madagascariensis, Vintage fabric, thread, watercolour paper, 17 x 23 inches, 2018. The Migrant Ecologies Project forges a pathway through this troubled nexus of urban life, exploring existing relations between humans and birds along the tracks. Utilizing the symbolic language of diagrams and models, Linantha’s seed-like forms connect to the landscape and suggest the scientific process through their modes of visualization. For at least five decades, birds, nature lovers, songbird clubs, tree shrines, kampung gardeners and foragers have roosted and seeded themselves along the tracks, nurturing a tangled patch of urban wild that is currently undergoing redevelopment. Varieties include Hopi red dye amaranth, calendula, clary sage, Tetapeche gray mottled cowpea, elecampane, flax, okra, poppy, safflower, sorghum, Hopi black dye sunflower, and yarrow. Hand-engraving on Mohawk maize, 15x8x3, 2019. I've always been fascinated by the powerful energy unleashed by a small sprouted seed, and making art installations with seeds is for me the most engaging way to pass on a concept of the necessity of preservation of biodiversity and the richness of the diversity of cultures. The SEEDS poster collection is a precursor for Food Phreaking Issue 04, which takes a look at the tiny embryos of plant life that carry the genetic data of our food system: SEEDS. This photography project investigates the connections between seeds, animals, and people in the desert, as well as the impact that these plants have had across the world. In Kani Sard, a village just two miles from Jarmo (where wheat was domesticated around 8,000 B.C. The Green Line 2 channel video installation as part of the Propagation Project installation, ON. Implying a process of moving from the unfamiliar towards understanding, it is within this active space that the wonders of diversity and resilience in the seed world lie. His practice takes up the dilemmas, conflicts, and varieties of parallax in people’s interpretation of specific histories and spaces. 2. 3. Davis came to notice the plethora of objects—electrical items, cardboard, and tin-cans—which tend to be left on the streets, collected at night, and taken to a central recycling point. Migrant Ecologies Project was founded by Lucy Davis in 2010 as an umbrella for art practice‐led inquiries into questions of culture and nature in Southeast Asia. There are only a few musicians able to play it and fewer opportunities to perform it. Likely heading to Canada, she left as quickly as she came. 1. Svalbard Ark 2019 depositor Ivan Juarez talks about his work. By The Migrant Ecologies Project (Lucy Davis & Collaborators) Digital image, dimensions variable. I’m exploring seeds that become products we are familiar with but have often forgotten their origin. 1. Bio: I came out many years ago as a plant obsessed individual, constantly gardening, and when it gets too dark outside to plant I can then be found in my studio making art with them. I got up and went to the living room, to close the sliding doors of the balcony to prevent water from coming in, as I usually would do. I nearly dismissed it as a downy woodpecker—very common here year around—and nearly went back to work, but changed my mind to take a look through my binoculars, now never far. If you like what we do, please support us on Patreon, or get in touch about other ways to contribute towards keeping us going. Materials: risograph printed publications. Migrant Eco Collaborators Latest Updates Criticism & Press Publications & Journal Chapters Research {Trees, Wood & Humans} Research {Natural Histories} Research {Birds & Humans} Jalan Jati (film trailer) Educational Materials Home Read our coverage of it here. Such work upended my years of writing as a critic with an assumed human reader. The two sets of seeds were sown at midsummer and I documented the process of their growth. We have always been biohackers. A house besieged. Svalbard Ark 2019 depositors Lucy Davis and Zachary Chan (from the Migrant Ecologies project) talk about their work. By The Migrant Ecologies Project (Lucy Davis & Collaborators) Jalan Jati or "Teak Road" is a visual art, science and ecology project tracing the historic, material and poetic journeys of a 1950’s teak bed, found in a Singapore karang guni junk store, back to a location in South Having learnt that each tree and therefore piece of wood has its own traceable genetic code, Davis sent samples to a timber tracking company, which provided her with certifiable data indicating which species of tree, and where, each piece of wood had come from. An effort to recover Kurdistan’s wealth of botanic knowledge, the course includes field identification, mapping red listed plants, and biodiversity conservation. These forms, along with more geometric, often architectural structures, have become part of a visual vocabulary I use to relay my experience of existence—from conveying the pulse of nature to mirroring humans’ capacity for creation and destruction. For the BiodiverSEEDy project, I created small hand-bound books containing pages printed from woodblocks, collagraphs and screens. Covering topics from crop diversity to climate change they serve to remind us we are part of a wider dynamic life system. Bio: Mary Robinson gardens, observes the natural world and prints on paper and fabric to explore the ideas of interdependence and reclamation. 12 & 13 September 2020: Swap4Earth free virtual festival, 28 + 29 July: Upcoming webinars by PM Haze, 25 April: Fashion Revolution Singapore 2020, 28 March: Earth Hour 2020 – Live & Unplugged, The Cross Island Line: Limiting Impacts to MacRitchie Forest.
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