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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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On View: Transplant Field Guide at SAVAC ︎ BLACK_BOX at Trinity Square Video ︎ Research Poems with Active Cultures ︎ Slow Living Cookbook with Xpace Cultural Centre
04 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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03 AFTERWORDS, AT
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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02 FOOD FOR AGROECOLOGY SERIES
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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01 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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