The Mythological Quarter is our way to use art to pay attention to where we live or find ourselves working. We are deeply invested in exploring the intersection of culture and ecology. We believe artists have a valuable role in shifting our collective values away from lives based on consumerism to more resilient, healthy ways of being.

Through interviews, recording city use, and producing original research, we document people, places, and projects that are taking a culturally based response to present day environmental issues and the looming global catastrophe.

The Mythological Quarter is a project in thinking ecologically about the world in which we live. We started from a micro-local standpoint documenting our own experiments from growing blackberries, or making tofu and passive greywater systems, in our Copenhagen apartment, situated in the Mytologiske Kvarter (several Copenhagen city blocks that are named after Norse gods).

We expand out knowledge by conducting interviews with artists and scientists working with these issues in hybrid and creative ways, as well as, review books and exhibitions that are dealing with culture and ecology issues, wherever they might be taking place. We think it is important to relate global issues to local life. We are building this project into a resource and see ourselves as part of a larger ecological art movement.

Regular contributors are Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom. Right now we live in Copenhagen, Denmark but have lived in Chicago and Urbana, Illinois. We have collaborated together for several years under the name Let’s Re-make. You can find examples of our work, like the Bat Houses project in the city of Urbana, here.

Get in touch with questions or comments, or just to say hi: info[at]mythologicalquarter[dot]net