“HighWaterLine was a public artwork on the New York city waterfront that created an immediate visual and local understanding of the effects of climate change. ”

“Eve Mosher marked the 10-feet above sea level line by drawing a blue chalk line and installing illuminated beacons in parks. The line marks the possible extent of increased flooding brought on by stronger and more frequent storms as a result of climate change.  During the summer of 2007, Eve walked, chalked and marked almost 70 miles of coastline. As Eve was out in the public creating the work, she had a chance to engage in conversations about climate change and its potential impacts.”

“The Canary Project assisted Eve with documentation (including filming and editing a movie about the project), publicity, content editing, organizing meetings with relevant scientists, research, studio space and volunteers.”

For more about the ongoing project see here.

“Increase Your Albedo! is an ongoing project involving sculpture, fashion and interventionist performances.  It is an investigation into latent mythology.  The more reflective the Earth, the less sun is absorbed and the cooler it stays. Ice and snow are white.  When they melt, the earth gets less reflective, warmer. More ice melts, and it gets even warmer.  We want you to increase the overall reflectivity of the earth by wearing white.  Albedo is the measurement of the earth’s reflectivity.”

“We want you to increase the overall reflectivity of the earth by wearing white.  Albedo is the measurement of the earth’s reflectivity.”

  

See more from Canary Project on the Albedo website here.

“For two years, I have collaborated with the Columbia River Orienteering to produce orienteering events at the Portland Art Museum for the now-annual Shine A Light event. The museum was instituted as a site for sport, offering a new approach to navigating the museum’s ‘terrain,’ while simultaneously offering a unique art-viewing opportunity to the back-woods competitor.”

“Orienteering is one of very few sports that relies on the interpretation of visual material such as maps and symbols.  Like art, it depends on a complex system of visual imagery and demands a level of visual literacy from its participants.

Typically, the sport of orienteering involves navigating one’s way between specified points of woodland terrain with the aid of a topographical map and compass. The sport combines creative decision-making, physical endurance, and navigational skills in some of the most scenic wilderness areas in the world.  A standard orienteering course consists of a series of sites or features to be found – each indicated as symbols, colors and patterns on a map. On the ground, orange and white control flags mark the locations that the orienteer must locate.

Interpretive maps, visual symbols and markers are equally common to the landscape of museums, galleries and other cultural sites. I am interested in using the conventions of an orienteering map to mark museum features and cultural sites in distinctive topographical terms.  I want to use orienteering as a ready-made performance and as an existing system for navigating art.”

Shine a Light, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2009

Shine a Light, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2010

Orienteers Find a Way, Autzen Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2010

Related Reviews and Publications:

Shine a Light.  Exhibition Catalogue.  Portland: independently published, 2009.

Shine a Light.  Exhibition Catalogue.  Portland: independently published, 2010.

Radon, Lisa.  ‘Shine a Light.’ Ultra PDX, 15 October 2010. <http://www.ultrapdx.com/zero/2010/10/15/shine-a-light/>.

Blake, Vanessa.  ‘Artful Orienteering.’ Orienteering North America, January/February 2010: 22-23.

For more on Helen and Hannah’s works see here.

“The Canoedio was a floating studio, in a canoe, during a 6-day trip down the Yukon River with Helen Reed, Eric and Stephanie Steen and Bob Jickling. The Canoedio was used for painting, reading and a mobile pinhole photography dark room. The project also included the transport of a 111-year old sourdough culture that had traveled the same river during the Klondike Goldrush. After paddling in to Dawson City, we presented the Canoedio at the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival.”

A workshop on portable pinhole developing. The Canoedio, Yukon River, 2009.

Bob developing pinhole photographs. The Canoedio, Yukon River, 2009.

Related events and exhibitions:

Yukon Riverside Arts Festival, Dawson City, Yukon, 2009.

See more of Hannah and Helen’s works here.

2006-present
“Fallen Fruit invites the public to bring homegrown or street-picked fruit and collaborate with us in making a collective fruit jams.  Working without recipes, we ask people to sit with others they do not already know and negotiate what kind of jam to make: if I have lemons and you have figs, we’d make lemon fig jam (with lavender).  Each jam is a social experiment.  Usually held in a gallery or museum, this event forefronts the social and public nature of Fallen Fruit’s work, and we consider it a collaboration with the public as well as each other.”

See more from Fallen Fruit here.

“Futurefarmers is a group of artists and designers working together since 1995. We are artists, researchers, designers, farmers, scientists, engineers, illustrators, people who know how to sew, cooks and bus drivers with a common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems. Our design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, an artist in residency program and our research interests.
Futurefarmers works across many media. This studio has evolved as a means to support Futurefarmers art practice and fellow protagonists in the road to positive change. We enjoy creating platforms for collective learning and engagement. We are a dynamic group of practitioners who provide services for cultural institutions, activist groups and organizations rooted in the transformative power of knowledge sharing and transmission. Our collective body forms a diverse knowledge and skill base that includes graphic design, architecture, urbanism, philosophy, ecology, industrial design, computer programming, information visualization, food practices, research, educational programing. We are aligned by shared interest and dreams.”

See works at Futurefarmers

(From Studio Orta) “The Antarctic Village is an ephemeral encampment that references the plight of those struggling to transverse borders and to gain the freedom of movement necessary to escape conflict or natural disasters. The village is composed of Dome Dwellings, hand-made tents assembled with sections of flags from countries around the world, along with extensions of clothes and gloves symbolising the multiplicity and diversity of people. The flags and fragments of clothes are silkscreen printed with motifs referencing the UN Declaration for Human Rights and an article the artists propose to amend: Art. 13.3

Through the symbolic act of founding the Anatrctic Village, the artists reflect on the ideology that embodies Antarctica in particular the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. The Antarctic Treaty, which now counts 50 signatory nations, has preserved Antarctica as an area for scientific research with common pacific aims to protect the environment and to encourage international cooperation.
Antarctica embodies utopia: a continent whose extreme climate imposes mutual aid and solidarity, freedom of research, of sharing, and collaboration for the good of the planet. It is a place where the immaculate whiteness contains all the wishes of humanity to spread a message of hope for future generations.”

For more projects see Studio Orta.