MEECH BOAKYE


Meech Boakye is an artist and writer based in Portland, OR. Their practice engages in collaborations with multispecies kin ranging from biomaterial research to digital gardens to fermentation workshops.



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MEECH BOAKYE


(B.A. Visual Studies, University of Toronto) is a Canadian artist based in Portland, Oregon. Their practice is rooted in relationships with floral, fungal and microbial kin as armatures for learning how to be in community.
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︎ Are.na
Explore Research Poems to learn about my experiments with plant-based milk coagulants, comissioned by Active Cultures ︎ 



AFTERWORDS, IN COLLECTIVE OFFERINGS


Afterwords is a series of performances with degraded land in Guelph, Ontario, and Portland, Oregon: a participatory knowledge sharing and plant foraging walk along a landfilled river bank, ritual medicine making, and offerings to disturbed urban spaces.

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Last Edited
8.16.23
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MAKING FOOD FOR OTHERS


We watched Chão (Landless) by Camila Freitas on the side of a truck once the sun had set in the middle of a tall grass field. Strawberries and beets drenched in an herbal oxymel brewed on the new moon painted our hands red, and crops in the background mirrored those projected in front of us.

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Last Edited
2.15.2022 Harvested

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THE WORK OF PROPAGATING SPORES


Initial thoughts and experiments with the recently released text-to-image AI generator DALLE-2, currently in its research preview phase.

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Last Edited
5.31.2022
Harvested

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SLOW LIVING COOKBOOK


This cookbook derived from an anonymous call for sick speech (for complaint) that Evelyn Austin and I responded to with our peers in our final semester of university. Having now both graduated, we attempt to move beyond a moment of catharsis and onto reflection. This cookbook echoes as a call for remediation through material research.

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Last Edited 4.10.2022
Harvested

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