on windows of opportunity
Coming up this saturday is a fantastic event: Gang! Gang takes its name from the Indonesian word meaning alleyway or small side street and commenced life in 2005 as a celebration of the deep links between independent art spaces and collectives across the two countries. This years festival is called “ART DAY IS TODAY†after […]
here it is
the map of the Self-Guided Tour of the weeds of Maundrell Park, Petersham, part of the Art in the Park: Cross Pollination, group show curated by the Makeshift duo. Here you can find a PDF version of it (better for print, 1,814kb). and here is the Guide, where the species are detailed. The Self-Guided Tour […]
a weed tour, tomorrow, in petersham. come!
Art in the Park: Cross-pollinations 9th December 2007 A biannual exhibition of sculpture and installation art that engages critically with shared green space in the city You are invited to Cross-pollinations, an outdoor exhibition on the site of a former plant nursery, once home to seedbeds, ferneries, fishponds and a hothouse. For one day only, […]
on not quite art
Tomorrow, Tuesday 30 October, 10 Pm, the last of a three part series will be broadcasted on ABC. The series aims at showcasing an aspect of culture rarely sen on tv here in Australia, the “outsiders”. Host Marcus Westbury, founder of the This is Not Art Festival in Newcastle and the former director of Next […]
Tonight, 10pm, ABC, on weeds and reasons for arguing
The Weedyconnection project has been selected as part of a program on the ABC tonight, Not Quite Art, written and produced by Marcus Westbury. The progarm present a number of art projects and artistic attitudes, from street art in melbourne to alternative art scenes in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, to Glasgow, Scotland. You can read a […]
Weed gathering: ethnobotanical practices in a cosmopolitan society
You gave a talk at the 2007 UTS CONFERENCE ON COSMOPOLITAN CIVIL SOCIETIES at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. The Conference preamble: What does cosmopolitanism mean in an age where globalisation is accompanied by the War on Terror and where unprecedented levels of international migration are accompanied by attacks on multiculturalism and heightened ‘border […]
You tube, like everybody else, and made a list of “weedyconnection-related” shorts..
This is the list. A bunch of shorts from anywhere plus a couple of yours. Subjects vary from self-help to self-health, from how to make a ground oven to how to make a soup with nettle. Some of them are straight lectures from various experts in environment, anthropology, alternative medicine, geography or all of the […]
on Wild radish and the resilience of some plants
You went for a walk by the Nepean River on the weekend and found a beautiful patch of Wild Radish, Raphanus raphanistrum. The plants is the subject of several international researches at the moment as is showing an incredible resilience to various chemical control methods, to the point of changing its own DNA make-up at […]
On New Nature’s Readings or How privets feed Possums
You are reading the latest book by Tim Low, New Nature, the follow up to Feral Future which you discussed before on this forum. This latest effort from the biologist focus on a re-interpretation of what “nature” is, in it Low breaks down the artificially construct which is wilderness and what it means to us […]
On Changing The Look
Apologies to all readers, the blog is undergoing a bit of a reshape to make it more relevant. I’ve changed the WordPress ( blog provider) theme (the way it looks), adding a bunch of feautures like the link bar on the left to the rest of weedyconnection’s online facilities, while keeping feautures from the earlier […]
