The Thorn Bushes are Bigger in Texas...

Spent a surreal last week building a thorn bush fort in rural Texas with one of my favorite people in the world, one Miss Angela Beallor.  We were in residence at Habitable Spaces, a combination sustainable farm and residency program just getting underway near Kingsbury, Texas.  The remoteness of the land, the hugeness of the sky, the barbedness of just about everything (plant life, animal life, the sharp noon day sun and some sharp cold nights) made for a fascinating awakening.  I loved being in such a foreign topography.  Gathering up simply stunning flint (in blood reds, oranges, browns), and branches from all sorts of thorny things made for a week I won't soon forget.  More pictures on the way soon.

Fort Holmden Lives!

Photos from Full Circle Mirror Image event held this summer

Just found this set of beautiful images from a beautiful July event Maurice Small, Johnny Coleman and I worked on this summer. The collards they planted that day are getting huge now at SPACES.

Check out the photostream at: http://www.flickr.com//photos/spacesgallery/sets/72157627193929158/show

A Domestic Revolution?

I had the amazing good fortune last week to go to Amsterdam to meet an extraordinary group of artists from around the world for work.

While there, I happened across a "The Grand Domestic Revolution (User's Manual)," a project being organized by Casco, a space that explores art in the public realm. Utterly taken by how closely related the project felt to Survival Postures, I was incredibly excited to be able to attend one night of "The Kitchen," a 10 day project where Casco set up a communal kitchen open to whoever wanted to come, at W139, another art space in the city. Every night, 2 teams cooked together, and people doing interesting artistic and political work throughout the city were invited to come talk, present or play around. It was a chaotic, critical, yummy scene, and it was ripe with the kind of participation it takes to make what can be a sad domestic task (like making dinner), into a party.

I was impressed by breadth of people they'd gotten involved, and the crossing over that happened even in the one night I was there, much less the whole 10 days.

Here's a link to the radio show that was being produced from the Kitchen for Red Light radio, with a quick interview one of the organizers Binna Choi, did with me about Survival Postures. It starts around 29:30, but the whole show will give you a sense of what the Kitchen was.

http://www.redlightradio.net/shows/w139radio/kitchen139-08-december-15th

Here are links to other shows from the Kitchen series:
http://www.redlightradio.net/shows/w139radio

And pictures from the series:
http://w139.nl/en/article/20350/kitchen139/

Great news from across the ocean!