Jef Geys at S.M.A.K.
GROUND PLAN OF AN EXPERT NETWORKER JEF GEYS DEMARCATES OUTSIDE THE LINES AT S.M.A.K. bringing to expression the space of life in its entirety Lucebert Bringing to expression the entire space of art in life and the space of an entire life in art, that’s what the Jef Geys’ S.M.A.K. exhibition brings us. On the […]
Jef Geys au S.M.A.K.
Le plan de sol d’un créateur de réseau magistral JEF GEYS se démarque hors cadre au S.M.A.K. par Bart Janssen traduit du néerlandais par Michel Perquy Remerciements à Iris Paschalidis Photos : © Dirk Pauwels Archive : © frans masereel centrum arriver à exprimer l’espace de la totalité de la vie Lucebert Arriver à exprimer la totalité […]
Performance during the exhibition ‘Take Me (I’m Yours)’ – Monnaie de Paris
Dear Jef Geys, Working with Frederic Legros for the public programs at Monnaie de Paris, I wanted to ask some information about your performance project during the exhibition Take Me (I’m Yours) at Monnaie de Paris. For now, I understood that your performance will involve 13 women, reading in their native language, one after the […]
Communicating Science in Public Places: A Pint of Science Q&A with Julie Nadel
http://blogs.einstein.yu.edu/communicating-science-in-public-places-a-pint-of-science-qa-with-julie-nadel/ Editors’ Note: Pint of Science is a three-day global festival that seeks to stoke interest in science in “everyday people.” On May 18, one event took place at Gun Hill Brewery in the Bronx. Albert Einstein College of Medicine student Julie Nadel, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of genetics in Dr. John Greally’s […]
ZUID-AFRIKA | INA VANDEBROEK
Ina Vandebroek – Home I like to read a country as a book. The pages of Belgium make up a book of longing and belonging. The train that I took drives by fields of sugar beets, corn and wheat, meadows that hold ten different shades of green, black and white cows juxtaposed with flaming red poppies. To come […]
nature.com – The rise of Africa’s super vegetables by Rachel Cernansky
Long overlooked in parts of Africa, indigenous greens are now capturing attention for their nutritional and environmental benefits. by Rachel Cernansky http://www.nature.com/news/the-rise-of-africa-s-super-vegetables-1.17712?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews Pete Muller/Prime for Nature One lunchtime in early March, tables at Nairobi’s K’Osewe restaurant are packed. The waiting staff run back and forth from the kitchen, bringing out steaming plates of deep-green African […]
Ina Vandebroek – The Spiritual Component – The Anthropology of Ethnopharmacology
excerpt from The Anthropology of Ethnopharmacology The third issue is that a plant medicine usually has more than one meaning. Its physiological effect cannot be separated from its anticipated other meanings – emotional or spiritual – by the people who use or sell the plant. Another botánica-related story illustrates this. A Puerto Rican man in […]
wfuv.org – alternative treatments: botanica
Botanicas mix spirituality and nature to provide remedies for various emotional and physical ailments. At Original Products Botanica in the Bronx, shelves are stocked with thousands of medicinal herbs, fast-luck bath salts and even so-called “Bring Back My Man” candles. To those unfamiliar with the culture, these products may seem more like gag gifts rather […]
http://pintofscience.us/event/community-health/ Monday 18 May 2015 Doors open 7pm, Event 7:30pm onwards Gun Hill Brewery, 3227 Laconia Ave, Bronx, NY SOLD OUT! A Little Taste of Home for Your Health Dr. Ina Vandebroek (Matthew Calbraith Perry Assistant Curator of Economic Botany and Caribbean Program Director, The New York Botanical Garden) Ina studies the dynamics of […]