…of Domestic Integrities part A05 for the opening of “Fritz Haeg: At Home in the City” at the Walker Art Center tomorrow night (plus today’s links to a Star Tribune story on Edible Estate #15 and an interview with Michael Pollan on the Walke..
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…is how much bigger we aim to make the American Domestic Integrities rug this week – with a big rotating team of rug crocheting volunteers also bringing in old clothes and textiles – in anticipation for it’s installation in the gallery for the August 8th opening of..
…in preparation for the August 8th opening of Fritz Haeg: At Home in the City on August 8th, started this morning with the low rumbling of a huge moving truck barely big enough for my road, the arrival of two friendly movers for hours of heavy lifting, wrapping, and packing of the American Domestic Integrities ..
…informing local residents what they might be doing in the garden and kitchen through the months on the back of the “At Home in the City” brochure designed by Walker Art Center designer Andrea Hyde is hot off th..
…last night has me moving in for a few days stay in the cozy horse shed of this dreamy rural Pennsylvania homestead/schoolhouse/residency/cultural center presided over by artists J Morgan Puett and Mark Dion – where I’ll be gathering up a little knitting circle, talking to the fellows, reconnecting with old friends and just enjoying the ..
…capped off a quick last minute eight-hour layover in Minneapolis on the way from LA to Rotterdam for the opening of Animal Estates 9.0 tomorrow – but at least it gave me a chance to see the garden in it’s mid-summer state, and (Walker webpage and Foraging Ci..
…has continued gradually in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (commissioned by the Walker Art Center) over this week that started with snow and sleet and is ending with sunny summer weather – and though the wild plants, trees and shrubs (like asparagus, apple, mint, strawberry, rhubarb…) are little and struggling to occupy our mound of fertile ..
…in the Walker Art Center’s Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (for ‘Fritz Haeg: At Home in the City‘), where we laid the massive local slate pavers, surrounded by seating logs, surrounded by an 8′ radius of mounded fertile soil, ready to be planted with wild native foragables ..
…here on the Pollinaria farm in Abruzzo, Italy have reached their peak spring moments and final installations as we prepare to leave after a few weeks of living with them. (see lots of new pics po..
…all of the wild spontaneous plants we can find growing on the sprawling sloping expanses of the farm that have some domestic use, like borage, mustard, dandelion, chicory, chamomile, mint, cardoon, wild rose, fennel, blackberries, nettles…but our wish list of as yet unfound delicacies includes wild asparagus and nati..
…wrapped up it’s eventful four day marathon session at the Hammer Museum this evening, and tomorrow the (ever expanding, now 22′ diameter) rug travels to Human Resources in Chinatown for an intensive 10 days of morning to night Sundown Schoolhouse activities. (see more info and ph..
…music art collective friends Sara and Luke just happened to show up in town the day of my post-Detroit Art Institute lecture reception at MoCAD last night…so they graciously set up shop and got down to business creating comforting sound landscapes while some crocheted the rug and others enjoyed the local food Jon Brumit was ..
…is where I have returned today to set up for an evening event following my lecture at the Detroit Institute of Art – for which artist Jon Brumit is foraging food, Lucky Dragons is making soundscapes, and I’ll be sitting in a circle on the floor with anyone who wants to join me crocheting the ..
…the colors of the MSU Spartans – is center emerging from the piles of cast off clothes, textiles, and fabrics gathered for the third official Domestic Integrities rug (the European version now installed and gradually growing at Pollinaria in Abruzzo, and the American rug just opened at MoMA) which will be going to the Broad ..
…are on display with exuberant engaging street vibes in two current installations indoors and out; one on Cass with the Purple Stage supported by Arts Corps Detroit taking over a vacant lot, and the other a vast interior landscape of pimped out cars and dried corn husks called Visions in a Cornfield (by Destroy All ..
…and finally we get to see the project fully installed, presented to the public, rug in action, with a few days of crocheting getting it up to about 16′ in diameter, not the 18 or 20 I had hoped – but there is still time for it to grow throughout the show – while it ..
…by Andrés Jaque Architects encountered after my conversation with Annie Novak during a break from installing Domestic Integrities at MoMA across the river, was one of the favorite things I have seen in a museum in a while…a complex vertical structure comprised of various IKEA artifacts piled up, occupied and animated by haircuts, cooking, and even ..
…this afternoon coming right from the airport to the museum for a few days of communal rug crocheting to get it up to size for the Monday night opening, meanwhile out in the courtyard, the Domestic Integrity garden that we planted last June has been sprawling out, with an errant squash tendril occasionally grabbing a ..
…is the project studio I am starting today at Wayne State, exploring the unique way that Detroit art collectives (including Dflux: Detroit Research Studio, Heidelberg Project, The Hinterlands, Market Studio Kitchen + Detroit Emergent Futures LAB, MBAD Bead Museum, Popps Packing, Power House Productions and Design 99, The Edible Hut, TAP (The Alley Project) Gallery, Yes ..
…designed by Zaha Hadid will be opening on November 9th, featuring an installation of Domestic Integrities, and today was my first chance to see the gallery interior under construction, whose slick design will provide the perfect foil for the huge hand-crocheted rug of discarded textiles, clothes and linens upon which locals (like students from the ..
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