CHRISTINE MACKEY - Balsam Bashing
2014
During my time at Rejmyre, I explored ‘unmarked’ forest paths, notating, drawing, collecting and photographing things encountered on foot. I came across an expansive ground of Himalayan Balsam ‘Impatiens Glandulifera Royle’. Listed as one of the ‘top five’ most invasive species, the language that surrounds this and other ‘weeds’ constructs images of science-fiction aliens, militaristic enemies, and dangerous foreign nationals/immigrants. Juggling in-part, historical fact with fiction ‘Balsam Bashing’ illustrates the socioeconomic connectivity between humans and plants in our shaping of a landscape and the destructive ideology behind ‘nation states’.
Balsam Bashing Term used to mobilize people in the collective destruction of the Himalayan Balsam.
Link to Balsam Bashing Publication by Christine Mackey
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Installation artists 2011 - now
- Aldís Ellertsdóttir Hoff | Sweden / Iceland
- Anna Berglind | SE
- Daniel Peltz | USA
- Shirin Adhami | USA
- Sissi Westerberg | Sweden
Embedded Installations
Index :
- TILDA DALUNDE - Longing for safety in the impossible | 2020
- FRIDA HÅLLANDER - The lung of the factory | 2019
- RETENTION - Erna E Skúladóttir & Karin Blomgren | 2019
- MATTIAS HOFVENDAHL - Wetlands | 2019
- HARRIE LIVEART - The Psyche of the land | 2019
- HASTI RADPOUR - Out of sight, out of mind | 2019
- SISSI WESTERBERG - Pausblås | 2018
- DANIEL PELTZ - Seeking an Any Thing from an uncertain time in the ruins of Rejmyre's future | 2018
- DAVID LARSSON - There was nothing else to do with the forest | 2018
- ROBYN BACKEN - Barn Wall | 2017
- CHRISTINE MACKEY - Balsam Bashing | 2014
- BRUCE CHAO - Coracles | 2014
- Bettina Speckner - The vase | 2012
- Zoë Sheehan Saldaña | 2012
- SIMON KLENELL - permanent installation at Pizzeria Rejmyre | 2012
- ALDÍS ELLERSDÓTTIR HOFF - Kneel down for Rejmyre | 2012
- ROBYN BACKEN - Exposure | 2011
- TRACY STEEPY - Body Castings | 2011
- JOCELYNE PRINCE - Dust Stencils | 2011
- DANIEL PELTZ - a pilgrim in Rejmyre / tourist information | 2011
- SISSI WESTERBERG - Installations 2009-2014 | 2009
- page is currently being updated | 2009