[-empyre-] living systems

[Amanda McDonald Crowley]

Mary,

By way of further introduction, I thought I might bring to the attention of this discussion list your current project, Swale, that you'll be working on over the summer 2016 in New York City. I wonder if you might introduce the project a little. http://www.swaleny.org/

And perhaps it would also be useful to give some background to a particular thread in many of your works: I am thinking of the works that I see as related, that began with The Waterpod Project, which led to a series of other works: Flock House Project New York,Triple Island,  Flock House Project Omaha, and Wetland. In each of these projects, growing food as part of the infrastructure of the project was a key element to the "live / work" nature of each of these art projects.

With Swale, your attention is turned more specifically to growing food on a public floating "park". So in essence food seems to be the core concern of this work, where previously it was part of an integrated system, something I've heard you describe as a living system. Can you describe a little why this concept of a living system has become so central to much of your art practice?

Amanda


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