Topic: Projects and Events

At the International Symposium of Electronic Art and Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona, Spain. Curated by Sara Dean, Beth Ferguson, and Marina Monsonís.

Chandra Russo published two scholarly articles examining the history and influence Guerrilla Grafters and the possibilities for our radical imagination. The first, entitled “The art of care: Urban oppositional practices and the case of the Guerrilla Grafters,” is through City. The second is “Cities of Fruit: Arts Intervention and the Radical Imagination,” through American Quarterly. I love reading these articles and learning new perspectives on this beloved project.

And the grafts have taken! In 2020, just before the lockdown, Burst visited CSU San Marcos and grafted the Callery Pears on campus with students. Read about the project here:
https://news.csusm.edu/project-to-graft-branches-is-blooming-on-campus/

This online workshop will introduce participants to the basics of fruit tree grafting, with attention to urban street trees. Burst, of the Guerrilla Grafters demonstrated basic grafting techniques, discuss strategies for grafting on city streets, and talk about the stakes involved for tactical urban commons. They outline the dynamics of public and private space in urban contexts, and how this guerrilla practice situates in larger interventionist, ecological, and social art contexts.

ONLINE MAR 7 | 2021 | 1-2:30PM ET

https://pioneerworks.org/classes/creating-edible-urban-worlds-techniques-and-politics-of-guerrilla-grafting/

Grafters X Change, a bioregional eco-art event where fruit tree enthusiasts throughout Central New York converge to share scionwood and seeds, skills, fruit foods, and art projects, is online this year — exchanging scionwood, seeds, and skills via a range of distanced and networked engagements — visit https://www.graftersxchange.org/2021-2/ to learn more.

Sister project HARD GRAFT by artist Seoidin O’Sullivan has a new publication out. O’Sullivan and her co-authors give us many shout-outs <3. Learn more about her project here: http://www.seoidinosullivan.com/#/hardgraft/

In February 2020, Burst visited CSU San Marcos for several days of workshops working through the construction of public natures. We grafted the Callery pears on campus and made companion species seed packets for the ornamental trees.

Published through the Lunch Journal. This issue is #13 and called “Mischief.”
http://lunch-journal.com/lunch-13