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INPUT FIELD FORM #2 NYC DINNER

Please join us for an intimate sit down dinner
created and realized by Ursula Endlicher
curated by Amanda McDonald Crowley / Public Art Action
hosted by Asher Remy-Toledo / Hyphen-Hub

INPUT FIELD FORM #2 NYC DINNER
a magical evening of edible HTML
a post digital dinner

When: Wednesday November 14, 2018, 19:00 – 22:00
Location: At a duplex loft in Chelsea / exact address will be sent to you by ticket purchase

This will be an intimate, seated dinner with a very limited number of guests
Reserve your seat at the table

come prepared to participate in a conversation about the future of foodinformed by Ursula’s most recent project in her edible HTML series of projects

INPUT FIELD FORM DINNER – a five course meal serving edible HTML paired with wine tastings

Schedule:
19:00 ARRIVAL
19:15 ENTER the room and prepare with a contextual introduction by your host/s
19:30 BEGIN the INPUT FIELD FORM journey with an introduction by Ursula [course #1]
19:45 COMMENCE the conversation by taking a seat at the table
20:00 INPUT FIELD FORM DINNER course #2
20:15 INPUT FIELD FORM DINNER course #3
20:30 INPUT FIELD FORM DINNER course #4
20:45 INPUT FIELD FORM DINNER course #5
21:00 CONTINUE the conversation over wine
21:30 /END

Please join us!

Ursula Endlicher www.ursenal.net
Amanda McDonald Crowley / Public Art Action
Asher Remy-Toledo/ Hyphen-Hub
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Grow Food Make Art

I recently contributed an article about Juanli Carrión’s most recent iteration of his Outer Seed Shadow project (OSS#MH) to Voices in Contemporary Art, VoCA.

Juanli Carrión’s most recent iteration of his Outer Seed Shadow project (OSS#MH) was installed in the Marble Hill neighborhood in the Bronx, New York City in the spring of 2017. It is an ongoing project intended as a permanent fixture at the Marble Hill Houses community, but it will continue to grow, quite literally.

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Science & U visit Swale

Science and U visit Swale.

Published on 10 Sep 2017

CUNY TV Presents Swale

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Agrikultura in the news!

Amanda Mcdonald Crowley och Marek Walczak ligger bakom triennalen. Bild: David Helander

Amanda Mcdonald Crowley och Marek Walczak ligger bakom triennalen.
Bild: David Helander


Press coverage of Agrikultura in southern Sweden:

Österlen magasinet : Familjeträd växer fram på Svabesholm

Expressen Kultur :  Kommunal växtvärk i Malmös nya stadsdel

Vilks.net : Mer om vandaliserad konst, om landart och en omvärdering

SVT nyheter Skåne : Han ympar 40 skånska äppelsorter på ett träd

SVT Nyheter Skåne : Interview with Sam Van Aken

Sydsvenskan  Kultur : Konsten slår rot på Hyllie

Sydsvenskan :  Ätbar konst planteras i Hyllie 

Skånska Dagbladet : Mat möter konst i Hyllie 

Hyllie Local :  Agrikultura – grön konst med naturlig drivkraft

Malmö stad press release :  Agrikultura – konstevenemang med växtkraft

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Swale on Now This News

“This floating forest contains hundreds of edible plants.”

Lucy Biggers of Now This chats to Swale team members about the project while we were docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park!

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Agrikultura Opening

Logo2001 July, 2017
11:00 – 18:00
Hyllie, Malmö

Kulturföreningen Triennal and Public Art Action are delighted to announce that Agrikultura, an exhibition of public artworks, installations, meals, performances, urban interventions, mobile kitchens, and events to take place outdoors in Hyllie, Malmö, opens on 1 July and will be open with various programs scheduled every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday until 27 August, 2017. Check out our map for exact locations of the artworks!

The project is realized and installed on 8 hectares of the future “English Park” in Hyllie, and includes artworks, performances, and projects by: Agata Bielska (PL/SE), Antonina Simeti (US), Åsa Maria Bengtsson (SE), Bent Bøgedal Christoffersen (SE), Bjørn Wangen (SE), Egle Oddo (IT/FI), Erik Sanner (US), Farah Marie Velten (US), Grit Ruhland (DE), Gunnel Pettersson (SE), Håkan Skytte (SE), Helena Marika Ekenger (SE), Jessica Segall (US), Johanna Kindvall (SE/US), Josh Miller (US), Juanli Carrión (ES/US), Kira Nam Greene (KR/US), Leonardo Aranda (MX), Luke Lowings (UK), Malin Lobell (SE), Marek Walczak (UK/US), Mari Keski-Korsu (FI), Marianne Morild (UK), Mark Shepard US), Martinka Bobrikova (NO), Mary Mattingly (US), Monix Sjölin (SE), Oliver Kellhammer (CA/US), Oscar de Carmen (ES/NO), Rendel Ibing (DE/SE), Robert Ek (SE), Rory Solomon (US), Sam Van Aken (US), Shu Lea Cheang (FR), Sophia Warsh (US), Ursula Endlicher (AT/US), Wes Heiss (US).
Many of the artists will be present at the opening, and several will be doing performances, tours, and workshops on our Opening Day.

We invite you to join us to explore works in the fields, and participate in workshops and performances. Bring bring a picnic, food to share, picnic utensils, glasses (and if you have it, also a picnic blanket or cloth) and join us in the park for a celebratory picnic at 17:00. We will provide a celebratory drink, prepared at Johanna Kindvall’s Field Kitchen.

The schedule of activities:

Opening Day hours: 11:00 – 18:00

Take a walk around the fields and listen to Rory Solomon’s Radio Tree Malmö in the woods; explore Oliver Kelhammer’s Neoeocene grove of ancient trees; pick lettuce leaves from Åsa Maria Bengtsson’s Edible Carpet; forage from Cluster, Malin Lobell and Mary Mattingly’s permaculture planting; hang out at Oscar de Carmen and Martinka Bobrikova’s Kitchen Dialogues installation; find Farah Velten creating cyanotypes of current festival blooms or possibly foraging edible plants for her Agriphoto-Culturagraph; visit Monix Sjölin as she builds her Spirit House.

11:00 – 12:00 OSS#HL Planting
Join Holma and Kroksbaäck residents for the planting on OSS#HL a healing garden made in collaboration with Juanli Carrión to commemorate more than 25 years of Självförvaltning.

12:00 – 14:30 Calling for the Others
Join Mari Keski-Korsu and Grit Ruhland for their environmental-sound-project, Calling for the Others, to learn kulning – traditional cattle calling.
Please register on Eventbrite here: Calling For The Others registration

13:00 – 16:00 Input Field
Ursula Endlicher will give tours and provide bites sampling the functionality of the input fields.

13:00 – 15:00 Collaborative Possibilities
Join instigator of Martian Weed and Pest Utility Research Erik Sanner for a workshop to explore how we might survive on Earth, on Mars, on the Moon, on a space station, or under the ocean. The most powerful ideas are only adopted through conversation, through sharing, through exploring reality together in creating something out of our limited understanding.
Limit to 15 participants. Please register here: Collaborative Possibilities registration

13:00 – 15:00 Hive Perspective
Join Jessica Segall for a pin-hole camera workshop, for a bees-eye view of the world.

13:00 – 15:00 The Importance of Being …
Join Malin Lobell for a composting workshop, and explore the world from the perspective of worms.

15:00 – 15:30 Landscapes of Resistance
As part of her Ark of Seeds installation, Egle Oddo will offers to the public miniature edible sculptures filled with seeds and herbs. They have been designed in collaboration with chef de cuisine Lorenzo Eleuteri.

16:00 – 17:00 Meet Hedgerow Hyllie
Get to know Hedgrerow Hyllie. Learn how to interact with her, access the data that she generates and see how she impacts the local ecosystem.
Limit to 20 participants. Please register here: Hedgerow Hyllie registration

16:00 – 17:00 Pigs and Man
Join Bent Bøgedal Christoffersen and his pig collaborators for a sound performance in the Open Room.

17:00 Picnic in the fields
Join us for a communal picnic in the fields!! Please bring picnic supplies, and food to share! We will make a long patchwork of everyone’s picnic blankets and celebrate together.

A key goal for Agrikultura is to imagine sustainable solutions to food in cities. We will explore permacultural solutions – systems of agricultural and social design principles centered on simulating or utilizing patterns and features observed in Swedish ecosystems. Artists will work with city gardeners, youth groups, and citizens to reimagine urban landscapes taking into account ecological design and engineering, integrated water resource management, and sustainable landscape design to develop regenerative and self-maintaining habitats.

We aim to create a unique experience, that will not only be beautiful but that will engage our audiences in meaningful ways to think about what practical roles we might play in imagining the future of our food systems, in expansive, sustainable, and delightful ways.

We hope you can join us!

Agrikultura Curators: Marek Walczak, Amanda McDonald Crowley
and the Kulturföreningen Triennal team.

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Agrikultura is organized by Kulturföreningen Triennal.

We have been fortunate to secure support from the city of Malmö, and the state of Skåne, as well as considerable in-kind support from the City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Agrikultura projects and infrastructure have been realized in collaboration with Holma Folkhögskola, MKB Fastighets AB, Holma community and Självförvaltning, Ung I Somar, Praktik vid Events, Hvilan Utbildning, Eiras Gröna. Artists have received additional support from Kone foundation, Svenska kulturfonden, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Nordic Culture Point, Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Spanish Embassy Stockholm.

Special thanks to Susanna Kapusta, Ola Melin, Lars Qvint, beekeeper Istvan, Werner Rohwedder, Jette Kjær, Åsa Hellberg, Bahram H Maaf, Anna Kindvall, Christer Berg, Mona Kindvall, Jytte Jonna Hansen, Eva Stene, Kari Mjåtveit, Sara Högberg, Anja Nilsson, Kenton Knowles and to all of you who have contributed with labor, plants, seeds, watering, building materials, and food.

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Agrikultura

SAVE THE DATE: Agrikultura opens on July 1, 2017 in Hyllie, Malmö, Sweden.

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Kulturföreningen Triennal is delighted to announce that Agrikultura, an exhibition of public artworks, installations, meals, performances, urban interventions, mobile kitchens, and events to take place outdoors in Hyllie, Malmö, opening on July 1, 2017 and running until August 27, 2017.

The Agrikultura curators are Marek Walczak and Amanda McDonald Crowley. The project will be realized and installed on 8 hectares of the future “English Park” in Hyllie.

Some of the questions we wish to address with the project include: What is our present relationship to the land? How can we augment and redefine our cultural and emotional connection to a nature that we have over-extended? How can we re-engage with a nature we have pushed ever further from our lives?

Walczak and McDonald Crowley developed an open call for proposals. “We were honored to receive 120 submissions from artists from Sweden, Nordic Countries, and all across the globe. From that, we have shortlisted some 32 projects for possible inclusion in the event.”

While we are still finalizing the list of projects we are pleased to announce several:

OSS Holma Healing Garden: Juanli Carrión (ES/US) will work with citizens of the adjoining Holma neighbourhood to build a healing garden of medicinal plants.

Strange Harvest: Rainer Prohaska (AT) will establish a temporary cooking-lab where research will inform food experiments and cooking performance will take place.

Edible Carpet: Åsa Maria Bengtsson (SE) will build a rolling mat – a magic carpet – of salad greens and edible flowers planted in oriental patterns, that can be harvested for meals.

Cluster: Mary Mattingly (US) will build a forest edge landscape of edible plants.

Tree of 40 Fruit: Sam van Aken (US) will grow a single tree that grows 40 different varieties of stone fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, and cherries; and one that grows 40 different varieties of apples.

Den Javla Marmeladfabriken: Helle Robertson (SE) will invite audiences to forage in the city for fruits, by knocking on the doors of neighbours and strangers, to collectively make jam, and build community.

A key goal for Agrikultura is to imagine sustainable solutions to food in cities. We will explore permacultural solutions – systems of agricultural and social design principles centered on simulating or utilizing patterns and features observed in Swedish ecosystems. Artists will work with city gardeners, youth groups, and citizens to reimagine urban landscapes taking into account ecological design and engineering, integrated water resource management, and sustainable landscape design to develop regenerative and self-maintaining habitats.

The opening will be held outdoors with food grown in the area, and the meal itself will be designed and realized by artists, where local food producers, chefs, and artists work collaboratively to develop a performative festive feast.

We aim to create a unique experience, that will not only be beautiful but that will engage our audiences in meaningful ways to think about what practical roles we might play in imagining the future of our food systems, in expansive, sustainable, and delightful ways.

We hope you can join us!

Marek Walczak, Amanda McDonald Crowley, and the Kulturföreningen Triennal team.

Agrikultura will be realized with generous support from Malmö Kulturstödet, Kulturförvaltningen; Kulturnämnden Region Skåne; and Malmö stad.

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Swale on NY1

Swale Brings Farm-Grown Food to a Bronx River Barge

By Erin Clarke
Friday, July 22, 2016 at 11:00 AM EDT

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“The 130-foot by 40-foot floating platform is the creation of the non-profit organization Swale, whose founder wants the city to explore growing fruits and vegetables in parks as a way to provide food to residents.

“Going forward we can work towards policy change in the city where right now it’s still illegal to grow public food in public spaces and what we hope is that this can set a good example and we can potentially move forward with starting to change some of those old rules,” said Mary Mattingly, the founder of Swale.

Mattingly says the barge is partly a farm, and partly a public art project, that explores a new way of living. After a year of planning, the first planting occurred this spring. And starting Saturday, the barge will be open to the public. Tours will be given by volunteers from a local environmental activist group.”

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Interview about Swale in am New York

Swale, Mary Mattingly‘s most recent massive undertaking – a public artwork, and floating food forest, is due to open at Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx on Saturday July 23, 2016, where it will dock for a month before moving on to other locations around New York Waterways. I’m working with Mary and her team to curate public programs at our docking locations, and caught up with Meredith Deliso of am New York to talk about the project on Mary’s behalf.

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Swale Kickstarter

I’ll be working with Mary Mattingly and her AMAZING team on her SWALE project this coming summer.

I’m excited to let you know that we JUST launched a Kickstarter campaign for Swale.

Swale is a public floating food forest in New York City. In the summer of 2016, people will be able to visit a barge growing edible, perennial plants, and even harvest food.

If we meet our fundraising goal, we will be ready to launch in June.

Here is a link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1152620801/swale

We’d be so thrilled if you might be able to get involved in the project, even in a small way. And we’d also be grateful if you could share this link with your friends and colleagues.

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With Swale, we want to ask, what if healthy, fresh food could be a free public service, and not just an expensive commodity? It’s important that this project happens on NYC’s water for several reasons:

      • It can move! We can visit different boroughs and the areas surrounding the city.
      • Alongside rain water, we can utilize the river water, purify it, and grow food with it.
      • You might know that all waterways are actually a form of commons: In New York’s case, they are overseen by many agencies, but not owned by anyone in particular, which is one of the reasons we have launched Swale on the water. It isn’t yet legal to grow public food in public spaces in New York City, but on a floating island… well, we’re pushing the boundaries of public space!

Swale is working on several different fronts at the same time.

1. We are co-creating a floating food forest.

2. We are working with community groups in each place we are able to dock, to establish permanent food forests on NYC’s publicly owned land.

3. We are working towards galvanizing enough support to advocate for policy change; for a city where public food is incorporated into the urban plan.

Reinforcing water as a commons also gives us more of a chance to look after them. We believe that the more we look after our common spaces, the more that they look after us.

Follow along as we develop our docking schedule: http://www.swaleny.org

Mary’s built an amazing team, and A Blade of Grass have provided her with a fellowship to begin the process : but its going to take YOU to help us make it REAL…

Please join us on the journey!

Amanda, Mary, and the SWALE team!

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