Understory Kitchen Center for Subsistence Research
Understory Kitchen Center for Subsistence Research
Carbondale Seed Swap (year of the ox)
Swap heirloom and open pollinated seeds. Valet service. Masks required. Saturday March 6 from 9- 1 at 214 N Washington St Carbondale
Carbondale Seed Swap (year of the ox)
Swap heirloom and open pollinated seeds. Valet service. Masks required. Saturday March 6 from 9- 1 at 214 N Washington St Carbondale
Chicken Tenders
How might we create a way of life that is really worth living? A short film about chickens triangulating relationships between people. Carbondale Spring is a people’s movement based in Carbondale, Illinois, that seeks to turn the fossil fuel economy
Chicken Tenders
How might we create a way of life that is really worth living? A short film about chickens triangulating relationships between people. Carbondale Spring is a people’s movement based in Carbondale, Illinois, that seeks to turn the fossil fuel economy
Quarantine Chickens and Carbondale Spring
Here is the idea hatched by Carbondale Spring to foster food autonomy in the city of Carbondale and environs and published in Quaranzine, a short term quarantine project designed and printed by Marc Fischer.
Quarantine Chickens and Carbondale Spring
Here is the idea hatched by Carbondale Spring to foster food autonomy in the city of Carbondale and environs and published in Quaranzine, a short term quarantine project designed and printed by Marc Fischer.
Naxilandia
Naxilandia is a four channel video installation that features the rural villages of subsistence farmers from the Naxi ethnic minority in China, as they lived along the watershed of the upper Jinsha River (Yangtze) in the Yunnan Province. The roughly 300,000
Naxilandia
Naxilandia is a four channel video installation that features the rural villages of subsistence farmers from the Naxi ethnic minority in China, as they lived along the watershed of the upper Jinsha River (Yangtze) in the Yunnan Province. The roughly 300,000
Watershed Water School
Watershed Water School was a speculation on learning as something occurring between all species all the time, as an exchange. This learning needs long durations and is done through association. This 2 day long “autonomous school” was open to all living nearby or
Watershed Water School
Watershed Water School was a speculation on learning as something occurring between all species all the time, as an exchange. This learning needs long durations and is done through association. This 2 day long “autonomous school” was open to all living nearby or
Report back from the Zapatista Women’s International Gathering
In early March four of us from Southern Illinois flew to Chiapas to attend the First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle. The event was organized and hosted by Zapatista women from autonomous Zapatista
Report back from the Zapatista Women’s International Gathering
In early March four of us from Southern Illinois flew to Chiapas to attend the First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle. The event was organized and hosted by Zapatista women from autonomous Zapatista
Making sauerkraut
The Center for Subsistence Research/ Understory community kitchen teamed up with Foodworks, a regional organization that helps support independent small farmers on a sauerkraut making workshop.
Making sauerkraut
The Center for Subsistence Research/ Understory community kitchen teamed up with Foodworks, a regional organization that helps support independent small farmers on a sauerkraut making workshop.
Pickles in translation: Autopoiesis and vibration
Salt fermentation is the dirty-delicious- point in the spectrum of fungal-human commensality. The colonies that characterize fermentation begin with logarithmic expansion, leading to a plateau and decline. In this visible research project conducted in NYC, Sarah Lewison built Yunnan Style Pickle Jars and experimented
Pickles in translation: Autopoiesis and vibration
Salt fermentation is the dirty-delicious- point in the spectrum of fungal-human commensality. The colonies that characterize fermentation begin with logarithmic expansion, leading to a plateau and decline. In this visible research project conducted in NYC, Sarah Lewison built Yunnan Style Pickle Jars and experimented
Seed Swap 2016
At the seed swap we asked people what they know about subsistence. One man called it a lost art- we like that! Another old timer explained his family stopped farming when he was forced to enlist. His family had less than
Seed Swap 2016
At the seed swap we asked people what they know about subsistence. One man called it a lost art- we like that! Another old timer explained his family stopped farming when he was forced to enlist. His family had less than
Flyover Library, Social Center and experimental commons
Flyover is an ever evolving space used by people to learn, study and play together; a space where people involved in radical movements and counter-cultures can share information, meet and network with others. It emerged out of efforts to convert the old Big
Flyover Library, Social Center and experimental commons
Flyover is an ever evolving space used by people to learn, study and play together; a space where people involved in radical movements and counter-cultures can share information, meet and network with others. It emerged out of efforts to convert the old Big
Where you at? A workshop on mapping
This workshop consisted of two approaches to spontaneous map-making; first reflecting an individual’s knowledge and familiar spaces, and then the aggregative knowledge of a collective. The first exercise was a ten-minute “warm up” for which, with pens and sharpies, people
Where you at? A workshop on mapping
This workshop consisted of two approaches to spontaneous map-making; first reflecting an individual’s knowledge and familiar spaces, and then the aggregative knowledge of a collective. The first exercise was a ten-minute “warm up” for which, with pens and sharpies, people
a Region from below- drifting through Southern Illinois with Compass
The Region from below is a concept we used earlier to expose and map a concealed landscape of energy extraction. Last March we explored this idea materially with a drift to Southern Illinois. The metaphor of a territory buried underneath, with perhaps insurgent
a Region from below- drifting through Southern Illinois with Compass
The Region from below is a concept we used earlier to expose and map a concealed landscape of energy extraction. Last March we explored this idea materially with a drift to Southern Illinois. The metaphor of a territory buried underneath, with perhaps insurgent
The Kopper’s site and the toxic ghost
Carbondale was founded as a railway easement. From 1902-1991, the raw materials that were shipped out on the trains -coal, timber, oil and minerals-were also used at the Koppers Tie Yard to manufacture the railroad ties and utility poles ubiquitous to the
The Kopper’s site and the toxic ghost
Carbondale was founded as a railway easement. From 1902-1991, the raw materials that were shipped out on the trains -coal, timber, oil and minerals-were also used at the Koppers Tie Yard to manufacture the railroad ties and utility poles ubiquitous to the