The NBMC Enters/Exits Wikipedia
The NBMC Enters/Exits Wikipedia A National Bitter Melon Council Internet Intervention, 2008 www.wikipedia.org In this performance, the National Bitter Melon Council inserted a biography page about itself and the definition of BitterMelon as a vegetable and an artistic medium. As a result of this intervention, the National Bitter Melon Council page and our definition of Bitter Melon was deleted two days after they were uploaded to the WIkipedia site. Pictured is documentation of the...
Read MoreCommunity Supported Agriculture: A Share of Bitter Melon
A National Bitter Melon Council Public Intervention project, 2006 Various kitchens and tongues in Eastern Massachusetts, USA via Farmer Collaborators The food distribution ideology of the National Bitter Melon Council’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) operates using strategies and producing results that parallel Mail Art, a conceptual art practice that emerged in the 1960’s where visual art, sound, poetry, and other whimsical objects were distributed at random...
Read MoreBitter Mellon Homeopathy for Urban Renewal: Bitter is Better
A National Bitter Melon Council Public Intervention Project, 2006 Various sites in the Boston Metro Area: Chinatown, Somerville, Cambridge, Roxbury, and Jamaica Plain Bitter Melon Homeopathy for Urban Renewal: Bitter is Better was a public intervention project that invited interested growers to cultivate Bitter Melon plants in neglected urban spaces. The project was inspired by homeopathic healing philosophy where illness is treated with low-level doses of the toxifying agent. The...
Read MoreThe National Bitter Melon Council Educational Exhibit
A National Bitter Melon Council Participatory Public Intervention, 2006 The Topsfield Fair, Topsfield, MA, USA The National Bitter Melon Council Educational Exhibit was installed in the Fruit and Vegetable Barn as part of the Educational Exhibit Competition at the Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, MA. The Topsfield Fair, founded in 1818, is the oldest agriculture fair in the United States. Agriculture fairs have a history of competitive harvest and livestock events. The Educational...
Read MoreThe Berwick Research Institute
Public Art Incubator Program A co-curated residency program with Susan Sakash (2005 – 2007) From 2005 – 2007, I, along with co-curator Susan Sakash, developed and ran a residency program devoted to the development and cultivation of public art and public artists. This initiative, the Public Art Incubator (PAI), was a program of the Boston-based artist-run organization, The Berwick Research Institute. Creating public art can be a long and complicated process, often...
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