Filmmaker Sam Green and other guests chat about visionary architect and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller, the subject of Green’s latest live documentary, The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller. Throughout the night, hands-on activities in the exhibition Fritz Haeg: At Home in the City further explore Fuller’s influences on sustainability, conservation, and social change.
Surviving Tiempo Muerto: On Bungkalan and Peasant Resistance in the Philippines
The island of Negros is known as “the sugar bowl of the Philippines.” But this romantic turn of phrase obscures a dark reality: during tiempo muerto—the months of “dead time” between sowing and harvesting cane—farm laborers go without wages and food. “It is death built into the clockwork mandate of the sugar plantation,” write artists Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho. In their Artist Op-Ed, the duo looks to bungkalan, a movement that offers a means of survival and militant political resistance for farmer-activists who cultivate unused plots of plantation land to grow both food and community. Bungkalan, they write, “embodies an insistence on preserving life in the face of an impossible structure.”
Fritz Haeg's Edible Estate #15: Twin Cities, Minnesota
In a 20-minute documentary, Fritz Haeg and Jacinto Astiazarán profile the Schoenherr family and their suburban Twin Cities neighborhood as their yard is transformed into Haeg's 15th and final Edible Estate, a vegetable garden and vibrant community hub.
