Wild Stories, the exhibition
WILD STORIES Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1/12/12 – 31/1/13 “Imagine a world where we are all connected with nature – all species cohabitating in harmony, giving space to each other and allowing for the survival and thriving of each and one another.” – Diego Bonetto Artist, naturalist and forager, Diego Bonetto presents Wild Stories, an […]
On foraging and Videos, a poetic response
From Alex and Clare 🙂 Pioneers from vdmalex on Vimeo. 2010 we attended a ‘Weed Tour’ of Sydney Park, hosted by local artist Diego Bonetto as part of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s major exhibition ‘In The Balance: Art for a Changing World’. Diego introduced us to his friends – dandelion, wild mustard, sowthistle and […]
passing on some good writing
Patrick Jones is an artist, permaculturalist and dad from Melbourne. At the moment busy with the setting up of a food forest as part of the incoming show at the MCA, In the Balance, check out the progress here and some more of his writings here. Here you would like to share an article by […]
on artistic content, the lack of or..does it matter?
You spent the day with Lucas yesterday, general catch up on all sort of things, as we are entangled in all sorts of artistic ventures together, like the BigFagPress, SquatSpace and more current and gone projects. We’re going to add another one in the collaborative list, with the -just started- Tending project. This is going […]
There’s more to Brighton than a burned down pier
OK, this is it, nearly outta here. as a closing post you’d like to record a dot point list: Brighton’s west pier apparently didn’t burned down due to an ‘insurance job’, but rather because of two main theories: 1-the competition, Brighton’s Pier or Chain Pier, didn’t want the consortium who took over the pier as […]
Who am I f*cking kiddin.
Basel, the fair, image after image on this flickr set will give the reader an idea. Probably many came through this kermess already, or, even better, as Ilaria posted on my facebook a while back: Readers? Yeh. You’re here with Mick, invited to be part of a curated exhibition, Off Press, an official side event […]
Well overdue update, or rather, you went to Mexico
lots of things, out-bursting and spiraling out. Blogging is a pleasure yet a chore in the list, and you find yourself starting documents like this, over and over again, which then (in theory) get copied and pasted online.. Each time is a worthy post, at times more relevant for the italian audience, others (more often […]
On setting up Bio-art
“No please, don’t refer to us as environmental artists”, Caretto-Spagna said in one of the many exchanges we had in the past 6 weeks. You worked with them in a mentorship program in Cambiano, Italy, getting ready a major new work for a curated group show for the Strozzina, Firenze, Green Platform. When you were […]
where the wild things are
Most of the action at the moment happen in the Chippendale Google map (see the tab above) and in the Flicker page (see the tab on the left) come by, see the wonders
oops, or rather, how to contextualise $60,000
“Bonetto’s work is a barometer of our times, exploring nature, fragility, sustainability and how we integrate ourselves in the natural environment. The work is particularly apt at this point of time with what is going on ecologically, economically and politically,” the committee noted. It took a while to come up with this post. You were […]
