During the week of May 11-16, part of Boston’s Financial District will become a public soil lab and work area, as a crew assembled by Gina Badger works to create the Little Dig, a temporary non-monetary economy based on dirt.
Gina, with Shovel
As it foregrounds questions about waste, resources, and the creation of value, the Little Dig is appropriately set in the shadow of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and atop the city’s infamous highway megaproject to which the work’s title refers, the Big Dig.
This is the first in a series of projects by Badger that take the actions of gardening as strategic points of departure in order to develop a new vocabulary of urban intervention.
The Little Dig will be accompanied by a reading room at the Boston Centre for the Arts’ Mills Gallery, as a part of the MIT Visual Arts Program exhibition And Things of That Nature. The reading room will consist of 50 volumes and an annotated bibliography that extend and are extended by the performance of The Little Dig.
Interested in participating? Leave a note in the comment section, and we’ll get in touch!
Monday May 11 9:00AM
Soil drop-off
12:00-2:00PM
pH and NPK testing + Sampling
Tuesday May 12 5:00-7:00PM
Demonstration: “What type of soil is this?” + Adding soil amendments
Wednesday May 13 12:00-2:00PM
Demonstration: “How did all this stuff get in the soil? (Soil as filter)”
Thursday May 14 5:00-7:00PM
Spreading + Drying
Friday May 15 12:00-2:00PM
Demonstration: “What’s living in this soil?” + Screening + Final testing
6:00-9:00PM
Opening of And Things of That Nature at the Mills Gallery (539 Tremont St)
Saturday May 16 12:00-6:00PM
Soil giveaway
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