Amber Ginsburg
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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…
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Boundary Plants, 2015-16
Boundary Plants, 2015-16Giovanni Aloi, “Why Look at Plants” Boundary Plants is a series of paintings interrogating the implications of possible anthropogenic effects on ecological systems, in this case concentrations of radiation born of industrial scale energy production. The paintings Fear Daisy and Japanese Persimmon depict plants, the Chrysanthemum leucanthem commonly know as the “oxeye daisy” and…
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Attention Feeder, 2016
The Attention Feeder, 2016Sector 2337, Chicago, IL The Attention Feeder is a two hour collective exercise in prolonged attention. We will begin by creating a shared vocabulary for use during a series of guided narratives on the interwoven relationship between living, nonliving and human perception, as a way to perceive in less anthropocentric ways. Texts included…
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Le Museé du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors) – North America, Ongoing
Le Museé du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors), 2013- ongoingSara Black, Amber Ginsburg and Charlie Vinz 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 experience of western, human-centered notions…
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Project Fielding
Project Fieldingprojectfielding.org Project Fielding is founded by Sara Black, Billy Dee, Amber Ginsburg and Donesha Thompson. We consider building to be a gesture of craft, which by nature is slow, requires commitment, repetition and revision, much like social change. Richard Sennett, writing in the The Craftsman, sees in the “craft of making physical things,” insight…
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Drift, 2014
Drift, 2014Reedsburg, WisconsinWormfarm Institute’s Fermentation Fest Drift is both an autonomous intervention in the landscape and a site for exchange with residents and visitors. This floating sculptural form advances to shore on weekends where the artists will serve spring infusions made from local market farm produce harvested this fall, in frozen glacial water harvested from Exit…