[-empyre-] following up from Leila's post

[Renate Terese Ferro]

This message was sent yesterday but got scrambled in the mod site for some reason.  I have reposted it below in hopes it will go through this time.  

Yes Leila I did.  In fact It appears that most of our guests this month deal with food and justice.  My post was a general one thinking about what other cross disciplinary art interventions  use the strategies you all have been discussing in your work: from diy hands on workshops, to mapping,  education, and so many others. What made me think about this more generally is that over the past two days Tim and I have been guests of Paul Vanouse and his Coalesce Lab for Biological Art.  Today in fact we used edible gelatin to create porous spheres which potentially were conceptual objects to think about biological habitats or skins.  The lab is an educational outreach space situated in what they call GEM sciences which is Genome, Enironment and Microbiome sciences. But it is definitely a DIY space. For Art production.

So what I was thinking about are other cross-disciplinary art interventions that broadly embrace social, environmental, psychological, or other areas that may serve our communities. I was thinking of ways that our other subscribers might find intersections in the things that we are discussing this month. 

Hope that helps to explain what I was thinking about Leila.  I too promise to respond to some of the previous posts this past week.  Between travels and midterm critiques things have been crazy here. 

More soon.  Renate







Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rferro at cornell.edu