a weed tour, tomorrow, in petersham. come!
Art in the Park: Cross-pollinations 9th December 2007 A biannual exhibition of sculpture and installation art that engages critically with shared green space in the city You are invited to Cross-pollinations, an outdoor exhibition on the site of a former plant nursery, once home to seedbeds, ferneries, fishponds and a hothouse. For one day only, […]
stop mowing your bloody lawns!
Found this: As we seek to integrate our agricultural systems with the landscape, in a way that follows an ethic of bioregional stewardship, the native and naturalized flora of our region offer a uniquely diverse resource. The plants that surround us have co-evolved with, and supported humans in a myriad of ways through the millennia. […]
on interviewing adam
One of the good things coming out of this online presence is that gives you the chance to connect. Adam Fenderson came in contact with you the other week, suggesting to review some of his radio work, where he interviews various environmental practitioners. You decided to interview him in return, a person devoted to spread […]
on not quite art
Tomorrow, Tuesday 30 October, 10 Pm, the last of a three part series will be broadcasted on ABC. The series aims at showcasing an aspect of culture rarely sen on tv here in Australia, the “outsiders”. Host Marcus Westbury, founder of the This is Not Art Festival in Newcastle and the former director of Next […]
Tonight, 10pm, ABC, on weeds and reasons for arguing
The Weedyconnection project has been selected as part of a program on the ABC tonight, Not Quite Art, written and produced by Marcus Westbury. The progarm present a number of art projects and artistic attitudes, from street art in melbourne to alternative art scenes in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, to Glasgow, Scotland. You can read a […]
on permaculture, and someone who can explain it to you
To date you never touched yet the concept of Permaculture, mostly because you wouldn’t want to say the wrong things, you do not know enough about it to even attempt a broad insight. All you can do is cut-n-paste writings on the subject, like the Wikipedia definition for the concept of “permanent agriculture”: The word […]
Weed gathering: ethnobotanical practices in a cosmopolitan society
You gave a talk at the 2007 UTS CONFERENCE ON COSMOPOLITAN CIVIL SOCIETIES at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. The Conference preamble: What does cosmopolitanism mean in an age where globalisation is accompanied by the War on Terror and where unprecedented levels of international migration are accompanied by attacks on multiculturalism and heightened ‘border […]
You tube, like everybody else, and made a list of “weedyconnection-related” shorts..
This is the list. A bunch of shorts from anywhere plus a couple of yours. Subjects vary from self-help to self-health, from how to make a ground oven to how to make a soup with nettle. Some of them are straight lectures from various experts in environment, anthropology, alternative medicine, geography or all of the […]
On PHOTO-SYNTHESIS and the ephemeral art of nature
Ana Wojak is completing a residency at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney, a year-long immersion in the oldest garden of Australia. See here the online journal. The historic and cultural implications of the site are enormous and Ana is remarkably taking them all in, from the aspect of the botanical floodgate which opened the […]
June 30, a sunny and hot December+blogs by others
Today was the Marking Day for December, sunny and warm. Two other blogs need also mentioning: SamHoffmann’s, whose blog “documents activities and curiosity between Ecology , Performance , Sustainability, the Arts and Media”. Sam have written about weedyconnection recently, so this blog duly, reciprocates. Although is not a very busy site, there is an interesting […]
