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Le Museé du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors) – Thailand, 2019
Le Musée du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors), 2018-19พิพิธภัณฑ์แห่งโลกภายนอก, 2561 Carbon (Parkia timoriana, Diospyros buxifolia (Blume) Hiern); Museum: various construction materials Le Museé du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors) is a sculptural work that uses a tree as the conceptual lens through which we critically examine and expand our…
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Chicago River & Canal Walking Tour: History of Timber Extraction, Deep Time Chicago, 2017
Chicago River & Canal Walking Tour: History of Timber Extraction, 2017Canal Origins Park, 2701 S. Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL In conjunction with the exhibition Edward Hines National Forest and a Walk About It project of Deep Time Chicago Sara Black, Raewyn Martyn and Brian Holmes took visitors to the convergence of the Chicago River’s south…
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Edward Hines National Forest, 2018
Edward Hines National Forest, 2018Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Sara Black and Raewyn Martyn collaborate to create the Edward Hines National Forest, an immersive built landscape that traces a material from plant to lumber and cellulose to produce hybrid forms that expose relationships between humans, the human-made and the larger ecosystem. Hines Lumber Company was…
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Resistance Architecture – OPAL and Open Engagement – Project Fielding, 2017
Resistance Architecture, HPAC and OPAL, Project Fielding, 2017-ongoingHyde Park Art Center – Open EngagementOak Park Arts League – Terrain Biennial Resistance Architecture, Project Fielding’s first design build project, is an adaptable structure intended for political encampment that can be erected to fulfill the needs of long-term protesters. In conjunction with Oak Park events celebrating the…
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Tooling Camp – Project Fielding, 2017
Tooling Camp – Project Fielding, 2016In June 2017 Project Fielding held a Tooling Camp at the Hyde Park Art Center Project Fielding: Project Fielding was founded by Sara Black, Billy Dee, Amber Ginsburg, Miriam Stevens and Donesha Thompson and has expanded to involve Caroline Robe and Lia Rousset. We consider building to be a gesture…
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The Big Sequester, 2017
The Big Sequester, 2017Old School Art AsylumWormfarm InstituteReedsburg, WI Verge – Test Plot Verge (Dtour 2016) returned for Fermentation Fest’s Test Plot on August 26th and 27th, 2017. For Verge, Sara Black, Amber Ginsburg and Lia Rousset worked with local builders of all skill levels to create and place 220 Leopold benches at a farm…
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Knowledge Lab, 2017
Knowledge Lab, 2017School of the Art InstituteChicago, ILIn the spring term of 2017 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I facilitated and instructed a class called Knowledge Lab: Entanglements. The following documentation presents their work. Using the Columbus building courtyard and garden as a classroom, students will consider ways that humans, plants, architecture…
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Witness Tree, 2017
Witness Tree, 2017Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago Witness Tree, a collaborative work with Amber Ginsburg, is a marker in both space and time. The title phrase is drawn from the colonial land survey practice used to grid the landscape into plots for private and government ownership. The bark of a witness tree was scarred for identification,…
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Verge, 2016
Verge, 2016Fermentation FestReedsburg, WI In Verge, benches from local hardwoods highlight the transition zone between two adjacent ecological communities; where field meets forest. The benches, designed by late Wisconsin ecologist Aldo Leopold, reflect the human position in this larger ecotone. As the benches are turned into charcoal, they become a resting point for nonhumans. Added…
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Caledonia (Carbon Pine), 2016
Caledonia (Carbon Pine), 2016Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Scotland The Earth harbors a finite amount of carbon that though going essentially unchanged, shifts function and locale within the larger carbon cycle whether very slowly or rapidly. Photosynthesis removes inorganic carbon from the atmosphere where it is incorporated into the tissue of the forest as once again…