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Tinkering: Australians Reinvent DIY Culture By Katherine Wilson

By: Alexandra Crosby Dec 15 '17 Date: December 15, 2017 Comments: 0

I picked up this book at Gleebooks, which still brings together a great curated collection at the edges of academic and general audience publications. It caught my eye because of some writing I am doing with Dr Kirsten Seale about typography and urban renewal. Tinkering has had a renewed interest in the past few decades […]

St John's Community Garden: An Interview With Ruth Mollison

St John’s Community Garden: An Interview With Ruth Mollison

By: Alexandra Crosby Dec 05 '17 Date: December 5, 2017 Comments: 0

  I was recently in Hobart with a team from Frontyard for the Hobiennale. Hosted by Kickstart Arts, we spent four days making a book based on conversations emerging from our online image archive. We also did our best to get to know the site, St John’s Park. Across the road from our makeshift publishing […]

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Zones and edges at the 57th Venice Biennale: Bonnie Ora Sherk’s Evolution of Life Frames: past, present, future

By: Ilaria Vanni Dec 04 '17 Date: December 4, 2017 Comments: 0

This post is not exactly about reading books, although books are present, but about reading an installation and a major art event through the lens of permaculture. The photo above is from the project Unpacking My Library at the 57th Venice Biennale. Inspired by Walter Benjiamin’s 1931 essay, this project allowed all participating artists (including dead […]

Tomorrow: Demain

Tomorrow: Demain

By: Alexandra Crosby Dec 04 '17 Date: December 4, 2017 Comments: 0

With a few recommendations, we went to the Sydney French Film Festival to see Tomorrow, a 2015 documentary by Melanie Laurent and Cyril Dion. The film presents five chapters, each telling a local activist story that addresses the global challenges of Agricultue, Energy, Economy, Democracy, and Education. Predictably, the agriculture chapter was most interesting to […]

The Mushroom at the End of the World

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

By: Alexandra Crosby Dec 04 '17 Date: December 4, 2017 Comments: 0

We are reading this book because Anna Tsing’s book Friction had such an effect on the collaboration that is Mapping Edges. This book is about the most valuable mushroom in the world, the Matsutake, the commodity chains within which it exists, and its relationship with humans, trees and others. Through its ability to nurture trees, […]

The Island Will Sink by Briohny Doyle

The Island Will Sink by Briohny Doyle

By: Alexandra Crosby Dec 04 '17 Date: December 4, 2017 Comments: 0

We read this debut novel by Briohny Doyle for our speculative fiction book club. It is set in a not-too-distant future when environmental catastrophe is completely normal and immersive cinema about disaster is the most popular entertainment. The protagonist is Max Galleon, a filmmaker and family man who can’t remember anything without his implanted digital […]

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