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.
︎ About
︎ Illustration
︎ Email
︎ Instagram
︎ 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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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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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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