NanceI live with animals and plants. It is my practice and lifestyle to make medicine, build soil, and grow, forage for, and preserve food. This practice of mine is an economy in and of itself. It sustains me and I am also able to use it to create other economies that create other relationships with people and that pays the bills.
The art world casts lines to my practice and I use aesthetic strategies to illuminate and frame this lifestyle. A few of my on-going and one-off projects include: inviting Chicagoans to shit in a bucket and collecting and composting the resulting 1,500 gallons of human waste into fertile soil, serving homemade tacos made from foraged and dumpstered produce cooked in a solar oven-rocket stove pulled by a bicycle on the streets of Copenhagen, and designing/managing a large scale vermicomposting system of plus or minus a million worms at a large homeless shelter to consume their cafeteria waste.
