Recently, CAE has been studying necropolitics—the organization and administration of death. During this time we have become interested in the concept of triage as a fundamental organizing principle for deciding who lives and who dies when there are numerous injuries […]
Read MoreGraveyard of Lost Species is a temporary monument by artists YoHa and Critical Art Ensemble, commissioned by Arts Catalyst. The collaborative project celebrates the local tradition of wrecking boats on the salt marsh which in turn act as a concrete […]
Read MoreIn Nathan Philips Square (at Toronto City Hall), CAE created a monument that contrasts corporate and environmentalist arguments regarding extraction industries. The dialogue begins with a piece of corporate art extolling the benefits of unregulated extraction. As US artists coming […]
Read MoreCuencas Laboratory was series of meetings, lectures, dialogues, roundtables, meals, tours, drifts, and explorations centering around strategic reterritorializations of the watershed region of Argentina that could function as an alternative model to imperial capitalism. The primary participants in this project […]
Read MoreSterile Field was a presentation of the havoc placed on field ecology by RoundUp Ready crops. Most fields have numerous plants and species that share space with crops. Some life cycles, such as those dependent on milk weed, which grows […]
Read MoreIn collaboration with Parco Arte Vivente, CAE develops a workshop and action to plant endangered flowers on public lands and urban social space endangered by developers, thus conferring the legal status of the plants onto the spaces—most notably, to protect […]
Read MorePeep Under the Elbe was a project on water quality in the forgotten neighborhood of Wilhelmsburg in Hamburg. The city had given up monitoring the canals and wetterns in this area. Wilhelmsburg is an island neighborhood of immigrants and German […]
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