Put Your Bitterness By
A National Bitter Melon Council Performance and Public Intervention, 2011 International Pickling Day Festival, Lower East Side, New York, NY Put your Bitterness By was a site-specific intervention at the International Pickling Day Festival of the Food Museum in New York, NY. The National Bitter Melon Council joined pickling enthusiasts from NYC and beyond to celebrate all things preserved, fermented, and put by. The festival was filled with vendors of fermented pickles,...
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A Site-specific, Participatory Performance Event, 2009 Performed at the international performance festival and conference, “Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the America’s”, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics: 7th Encuentro, Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia, August, 2009 Universidad Nacional de Bogota, Bogota, Colombia, August 2009 South End Studios, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 2009 Mobius Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 2008...
Read MoreThe National Bitter Melon Council Mascot
A National Bitter Melon Council Participatory Public Intervention, (2006 – present) The Topsfield Fair, Topsfield, MA The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN The Boston Metro Area (various locations) During the Topsfield fair (pictured), we traveled fairgrounds as the National Bitter Melon Council Mascot. There, we were observing and understanding the particular culture of the oldest agricultural fair in the USA, disguising ourselves as a friendly mascot for an...
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...
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