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Musssels in their Winter Spot. Sculpture update

The sign says, “Don’t Touch, fragile below. Mussels wintering below the freeze line. To be removed in Spring 2025 Estuary Educational Project The MoS Collective participants are occasionally joining me in a controlled stumbling forward, I’m following through with all the unexpected cascades from an idea that created serendipitous cascades. in an effort to catch up to […]

FBS ‘24: Day 14 First Rain

FBS ‘24 Day 14: First rain. The mycelium is still white. I’m hoping to see mushrooms. That would be great. These blue oyster blocks have already flushed twice. They could fruit this fall, said Anne Apparu-Hall. Today, rethinking my mussel cage but mostly just moving the “Banquet for the Estuary” inside the MoS MoBS LoBS Lab – […]

The Dressy Bessie of Bioremediation

(Dressy Bessie is a doll from the 60’s).   All photos copyrighted. All photo copywrite dd maucher unless otherwise indicated. Request permission and name credit pin back to here, Thank you – much appreciated. Link to page: http://wp.me/p2bm5T-5AX  

Invite! Launch of The Esopus Seal Sculpture

THE GREAT BENEFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE ESOPUS SEAL SCULPTURE FBS:  FLOATING BIOREMEDIATING SCULPTURE 2024 Thursday Sept. 12th, 2024 5 – 7:30 pm The Arm of The Sea’s Tidewater Center 61 E. Bridge St. Saugerties, NY The Launch of the Esopus Seal & Beneficial Banquet for the Estuary. FBS: A Floating Bioremediating Sculpture. By Dee Dee […]

Blue Oyster Fungi Pick Up!

Went to Ellenville to see friend’s picked up two new blue oyster blocks and she threw in from the old pile out back 6 blocks.   Oyster mushrooms are great bio-remediators. The two new ones will fruit by Wednesday for the launch. The others will go into the myco hair booms and on the raft.  

Invite: FBS ‘24: 3 consecutive Evenings & Opening

You’re invited! The Great Launch of the Floating Bioremediating Sculpture: a banquet for the Esopus by Dee Dee Maucher living Lifestyles of Bioremediation & Symbiosis. Artist in Residence at The Tidewater Center. 3 consecutive evenings 5-730pm at Arm of The Sea’s Tidewater Center 61 E. bridge St Saugerties, NY 1. Tuesday 9/10 cohosted by The […]

Floating Bioremediating Sculpture (FBS) 3 evenings: Sept-10-11-12

Another Floating Bioremediating Sculpture: a microbial feast of exponential abundance. Three consecutive evenings September 10 – Permaculture Meet up 5-730pm: Micro & Phyto remediation September 11 – Wandering Wednesday Pot Luck 5-7:30pm, Myco remediation. September 12 – Opening & Installation festivities, doodling the future. The Floating Bioremediating Sculpture A Microbial Banquet for the Estuary At The Arm of The Sea’s […]

Urban Soil Institute Residency Continued

Urban Soil Institute Residency Continued Summer 2023 Bioremediation experiment Apply to join us as the Science Partner!  Testing the efficacy of the sculpture ingredients. It is the continuation of Last summer ‘s proposal for a residency at Urban Soil Institute (USI) which shares space in the SWALE house on Governors Island, New York City, a few MoS […]

5/14/22 Invite: The 5th Floating Bioremediation Sculpture Launch

May 14, 202: The Ecological City Pageant. Rain Sun May 15. MoS Floating Bioremediation Sculpture launch after a full day celebration of climate solutions with a wide variety of artists. Lower East Side NYC East River Park at 6th St and the river at 4:30 pm. We are living lifestyles of beneficial succession while harvesting resources […]

Invite to 10/2 The 8th MudBall Ball

  October 2nd, 2021 The 8th MudBall Ball A part of LUNGS NYC Harvest Arts Festival 2-7 pm El Jardin Del Paraiso.  Between 4th & 5th streets & Ave C & D 10 E 5th St, New York, NY 10009 The Masters of Succession Collective presents the culmination of a week of individual offerings to the community called The Plaza […]

Invite 9/25 to 10/1 The Plaza Of The Wind Offerings

The Participants of Beneficial Succession present  The Plaza of The Wind Offerings 2021. Celebrating the fall harvest of the plaza fig tree & out artistic processes. A Harvest Week: We have invited neighbors to share what they love to do with you. We have kids, wellness, performance, workshops, dance and play. Detailed schedule below. 2021 9/25 to 10/1  join us OUTSIDE of Grace Performance […]

Call for Offerings May 2021

The Plaza of the Wind Offerings May June 2021 Hellooo ! Announcing MoS Collective joins Grace Exhibition Space to activate the outside plaza for Covid safe activities, engagements. From mid May & mid June. The Lower East Side will be explosive with outdoor life this Spring and Summer. The indoor arts scene will be outside MoS Collective art supporting regenerative ecosystem […]

2/10 MoS Announces ‘21 Sculpture

February 10, 2021 join our zoom! Earthcelebrations.com Ecological City Pageant presentations. MoS Collective’s DD Maucher will announce the concept for this year’s FBS! Join the FBS movement! Contact us!  Sign up on Eventbrite to receive Zoom link RSVP – Free – Limited Tkts https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecological-city-art-climate-solutions-zoom-planning-meeting-tickets-135712699337     A brief retrospective Floating Bioremediating Sculptures (FBS) in the past three […]

Be a Snow Angel! ❤️Help today!

Be a snow angel and join us with a contribution to regenerative lifestyles in public soace programming! We can meet now on a great 2d platform. A global community moving toward beneficial succession — cascading betterment where possible. GiVE HERE & Project Details: https://ioby.org/project/plaza-wind-offerings We started 10years ago as MôS Collective. We aim to be closed loop […]

The Scene Behind The World

This etched photograph is from college pin hole camera assignment. : i made a three hole pin hole camera. It took sheets of  kodalith film. I painted the box blue and called it “The Big Blue Clodhopper with the Despotic Swagger”. I carried this clodhopper around. I placed it down, as I waited as it didn’t captured […]

Exponential Serendipities

The Ephemeral Piazza, EP, is a pubic space that grows through living relationships after which it is the needs that grow the spaces & places. The EP can be anywhere and is everywhere and can be somewhere.   It is your fantastical place but it is not a dream, it’s real. It’s a place to BE […]

Weekly Mixers on the “EP” Virtual

Weekly mixers. Jan – March,  2021 Thursday 6-8pm Contact here to join us.  25 Max participants. Add to the piazza, stroll around to see what MoS Collective participants have added. Share something. Go with buddy to discover beneficial succession experiences. It’s on Gather.

10/31/20 GES key trans to Teresa

  Huge thank you for participating & for photos & video. Dee Dee Maucher, Teresa & Sparrow Byrnes, Vivian Campbell, Harry B Lichtenstein, Wendy Henry, Acupuncture & everyone else who joined in the celebration.  

10/31 Grace Ceremonial Key Transfer

10/31/2020 Halloween Evening! MoS Labs is succeeded by Teresa Byrnes, a master of beneficial succession, at Grace Exhibition Space. After 6 months of MoS research and development, growing Living LoBS at GES, Teresa Byrnes will receive the very special opportunity to create in this space for 6 months.   DD will continue to grow the […]

10/30 MoS at Grace Culmination!

Gratitude, Stories & performance. MoS Labs is culminating a 6 month residency!  Join Dee Dee Maucher to say thank you to Jill McDermid & Erik Hokanson for this space and to you for our shared experiences over this challenging time.  We have supported one another and hopefully grown and adapted with beneficial succession.  Let’s gather those of us who […]

10/27 to 31 MôS Labs at Grace Last Week

How shall we commemorate our last week at Grace? I say: Doodle or bust. For Halloween let’s build a blue & green abundant village (in the shrubbery pit two) & embody it. —— Eco-Bio-Sci-Art-design Talks & Doodle Design Week 10/27 Tuesday to Saturday 10/29 Schedule for outside and in the window at Grace while we do what we do. These talks  make excellent soundtracks […]

The Plaza of the Wind CrowdFund!

Join the village plaza! Gather.town “Ephemeral-Plaza” this winter! All IOBY contributions include a membership on the plaza.   Click here to Support! https://ioby.org/project/plaza-wind-offerings It is tax deductible & doubles your contribution!     Permalink: http://moscollective.net/WP/plaza-wind-donation/

Join the Ephemeral Plaza!

It’s for this Winter! It’s a map of a place we co-create and connect live. We can see each other on the map as these munchkins we select as avatars. Because of the people I know in the permaculture, gardening, art, activism and improvisation communities, I’m influenced. What I’m experimenting with is lifestyle— a quality of life, […]

Story Mapping Craze

More on story telling! It’s a hot topic because we have this global pandemic pause and an election. Many people are asking for our stories. The ones we choose to share could help all beings & the earth. The stories are there, here, we’ve already written and told them. Let’s walk into those stories. What’s you’re story […]

10/16 The Obelisk Dimension

As part of MöS Labs Residency at Grace Exhibition Space The Microbes to Metropolis Journey toward Lifestyles of Beneficial Succession celebrates Phase 5: “Doodling the Future” we present Omer Gal of Cookie Tongue. He will perform virtually and inside the window glass “The Obelisk Dimension.” 8 pm 6-7pm The evening starts with with Microbes to […]

Phase 5: Doodling Fantastical Futures

MoS LoBS Lab last month in Residence at Grace Exhibition Space! October Phase 5 (of 6) in our Journey from microbes to metropolis.October we are in Fantastical Futures. We are pushing the limits of imagination to doodle the future with the roots of the past on which to build the fantastical.   Open house patio […]

Help the Ephemeral Piazza Before the Winter

We are fundraising for the Ephemeral Piazza and live grab n go experiences on “The Plaza of The Wind”. Tax deductible and we have a matching fund campaign! Joining the Ephemeral Piazza:  a smart way to spend the winter cooped up on The Plaza of the Wind— dressed to the nines and layered up (but make sure you […]

Until 10/30 Grace “Microbes to Metropolis”

Last month to experience the journey from Microbes to Metropolis. Coming down Oct 31. 2020. Who do you want to be in the place you want to see?  Join us to doodle and play in this future wonderland. Outside of Grace on The Plaza of the Wind We’re hosting Wed, Thurs, Fri. 5-8 pm  182 Ave C, NY […]

Cocoon Evolution: “Change”

Change: Act 4 of Garbagia 2020 Our planet asked us to stop.  May we go inward to listen and reemerge to relearn the symbiotic pathways of microbes that know so much more. We’ll grow naturally into a better metropolis. We’re an accumulation, a succession toward a vibrant, verdant and just home.   password: moslobs We pause to emerge from the dystopia […]

9/12/20 3pm: Garbagia Opera “Change”

Loisaida Center presents MoS Labs Act 3 The Ephemeral Piazza An interactive village center.  It’s participatory we harness our relationships to self others and environment to create the thriving abundant living system economy. Only with relationships can the infrastructure become and when relationships dissolve the place also dissolves. The place emerges and dissolves like a mirage. Loisaida.org  to zoom with […]