Bitter 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...
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The National Bitter Melon Council (NBMC) is a social experiment that uses the form and concept of performance art as a research method and model for community development. Our dialogue-based artistic collaborations involve participation and co-authorship of the public. A project and collective developed by Hiroko Kikuchi, Jeremy Liu, and Andi Sutton, with the additional collaboration of Misa Saburi from 2008 – 2011, the NBMC is devoted to the cultivation of a vibrant, diverse...
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