The Bureau of Linguistical Reality
A dictionary for the future present
Est. 2014
Curriculum Vitae
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is an ongoing original artwork created by artists Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott. Both Quante and Escott have long standing practices in the arts, sciences and public participatory realms. This resume is specifically for The Bureau of Linguistical Reality, a collaborative artwork Quante and Escott created in 2014. For individual curriculum vitae please refer to their respective websites.
Exhibitions, Performances, Lectures
2022
‘nATURE’ Exploration of the Disembodied Relationship and Sense of Separation of Humans & Nature, Birnam Arts, Scotland.
Hot and Bothered: The Power of Words, International Climate Change Symposium, Science Gallery International, Netherlands.
Commonstrust: Artists on the Commons, Thacher Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2021
MagicEarthMotherTongue: Language for a New Ecology Symposium, Western Washington University Bellingham, WA.
SeeChange: Sea Level Walk in partnership with the Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA.
SeeChange: 6 Mobile Field Studies throughout Pacifica, in partnership with Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA.
2020
Experiments in the Field: Collaboration in the Age of Ecological Concern, curated by Svea Lin Soll, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley.
Future Emergent, Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, CA.
Engaging Arts: Empathy and Connection, Stanford University, CA (canceled due to covid).
A Place Beyond, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA (canceled due to covid).
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality, Solo Exhibition, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2019
The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea, Six Field Studies with Diverse Communities, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Whiz World, Mobile Field Study, Royal Non Such Gallery, Oakland, CA.
Disposability, Mobile Field Study, The Institute of Advanced Uncertainty (IOU), San Francisco, CA.
On Rest, Mobile Field Study, The Institute of Advanced Uncertainty (IOU), San Francisco, CA.
Words as Catalysts for Culture Shift, Mobile Field Study, Green Film Festival, San Francisco, CA.
Ecopoesis: How We Hear Now, California College of Art (CCA), San Francisco, CA.
Tipping Point, Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, CA.
Neologisms for New Relationships with Land and All Living Beings, Mobile Field Study, Transhumanist Festival, Farmlands, CA.
2018
Global Climate Action Summit – Words as Power, Mobile Field Study, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA.
Sociology for Whom? On Environmental Racism, Mobile Field Study & Workshop, Association for Humanist Sociology, Detroit, MI.
Neologisms for New Relationships with Land and All Living Beings, Mobile Field Study, Transhumanist Festival, Farmlands, CA.
Follow The Flush: Artists Engage the Public in Water Cycles – participatory 5K walk that follows the Path of Santa Cruz Wastewater through Natural and Urban Landscapes, Mobile Field Study, curated by FICTILIS & City of Santa Cruz, CA.
2017
Foreign Language Mother Tongue, Performance & Exhibit, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA.
100 Days Action, Mobile Field Study, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Annual Gathering of Renewable Energy and Climate Change Stakeholders, Mobile Field Study, San Francisco, CA.
Grace Cathedral Artist in Residence, Mobile Field Study, San Francisco, CA.
Performance, Lecture & Workshops for Ranu Mukherjee’s Social Practice Graduate Course, California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, CA.
2016
Making Sense of the Anthropocene, Performance, Lecture & Workshop Davies Forum Lecture, USF, San Francisco, CA.
Interactive Art Program, Mobile Field Study, Bioneers Annual Environmental Conference, San Rafael, CA.
Rockaways Waterfront Alliance (RWA) & RISE Collaboration, Performance, Lecture & Mobile Field Study, Rockaways, New York.
Society Requests Your Presence, Mobile Field Study, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
ART LAB, Mobile Field Study & Art Book, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA.
Architecture as Pedestal, Mobile Field Study, senseofplace LAB, San Francisco, CA.
FERMENTA, Performance, Exhibition & Mobile Field Study, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.
Annual Open Engagement Conference: Theme of Power, Performance & Workshop, Oakland, CA.
Beyond 2 Degrees: Global Artistic Perspectives on the Environmental & Social Effects of Natural Resource Exploitation,
Exhibition & Mobile Field Study, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), Santa Barbara, CA.
Religion and Ecology Summit: Bringing to Life the Goals of UNCOP21, Lecture & Workshop, CIIS, San Francisco, CA.
Williamson Gallery, Mobile Field Study, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA.
Lecture & Workshop, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA.
Living with Fire in California, Lecture & Workshop, University of California, CA.
Performance, Lecture & Workshop, Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA.
Performance, Lecture & Workshop, Graduate Environmental Communication Course, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA
2015
United Nations Intl. Climate Change Conference, Mobile Field Study La Gaîté Lyrique, ArtCOP21, Paris, France.
Language as a Battlefield – Presentation & Panel for ArtCOP21, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France.
A Place to B, Mobile Field Study, ArtCOP21, Paris, France.
Neologisms for New Culture, Lecture & Mobile Field Study, Conference of the Youth, COP21, Paris, France.
Artist as Citizen, Performance & Lecture for Social Engagement Class with Sasha Petrenko, USF, San Francisco, CA.
Mobile Field Study Office, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Event & The LAB, San Francisco, CA.
Public Poetic Interventions-Exploring Science in the Art Studio, Performance & Lecture, National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored AICAD Symposium, California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, CA.
The Edge Effect: Science in the Anthropocene, Performance & Lecture, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in collaboration with Bay Area Art & Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative (BAASIC), San Francisco, CA.
Field Study Salons
#030 Inherited Power, California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, CA, 2022
#029 Erusure, University of San Francisco, Thacher Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2022
#028 Artists on the Commons, University of San Francisco, Thacher Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2022
#024 thru #027 Pacific A Future, SeeChange, Pacifica, CA, 2020 – 2021
#023 Nauselixir, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, CA, 2020
#022 The Spectramergensee, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, 2020
#018 Value(s) / Indigenous Alliances #019 / See to Hear #020 / New Voices #21, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2019
#017 Information Overload, The Growlery, San Francisco, CA, 2019
#016 Environmental Racism Association for Humanist Sociology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2018
#015 100 Days Action Collective, San Francisco, CA, 2017
#014 Being Maternal in the Anthropocene, San Francisco, CA, 2017
#013 Farming in the New Normal of Drought & Flood, Sonoma, CA, 2017
#012 Global, California College of the Arts (CCA), Social Practice, San Francisco, CA, 2017
#011 Invoking the Pause Retreat, San Francisco, CA, 2016
#010 Pinoy, Tagalog Salon on the New Immigrant Experience, San Francisco, CA, 2016
#009 Inequality in the Anthropocene, San Francisco, CA, 2016
#008 Nature without Nature, Paris, France, 2015
#007 Science Fiction as Way to Reimagine the Present Future, San Francisco, CA, 2015
#006 The Extinction Event, San Francisco, CA , 2015
#005 Sociology, New York, NY, 2015
#004 Urban Environments Future Present, San Francisco CA, 2015
#003 Fresh Water, Farming, Drought, San Francisco CA, 2015
#002 Oceans, San Francisco CA, 2015
#001 Global Sensations, San Francisco CA, 2015
Select Press
Wise Words: Why We Need New Words for Life in the Anthropocene by Richard Fisher, BBC, Jan 2023.
Arts Meets Science: How Two California Artists Can Help Personalize Your Eco-Grief, by Dina Gachman, Smithsonian Magazine, Oct 2022.
Why the Language of Climate Matters by Kiley Bense, Inside Climate News, Dec 2022.
Under the Weather: Mental Health and Climate Change,The Bureau of Linguistical Reality, by Ash Sanders, edited by Ayana Johnson & Katherine Wilkinson, All We Can Save, Penguin Random House, 2020
Experiments the Field: A Spectrum of Possibility in Unsettling Times by Laura Eliasieh, Berkeley Art Center Catalog , Sept 2020
Under the Weather: Mental Health and Climate Change, The Bureau of Linguistical Reality by Ash Sanders, Believer Magazine 2019
Forge, The Work of Land: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality, Blackwood Gallery Magazine, Toronto, Canada Fall 2019
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality on Seeding New Language, Audio Podcast, For the Wild Podcast, September 2019
Wiz World issues #5 The Bureau of Linguistical Reality, July 2019
Wiz World issues #4 The Bureau of Linguistical Reality, April 2019
Climate Change Has Started to Influence Our Language, Here’s How, ABC News, May 2019
At a Loss for Words? Join the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, by S.H., The Economist, June 2018
This Art Project Coins New Terms for Our Modern-Day Anxieties and Hopes, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, KQED August 2018
Coming to Terms with a Life Without Water, by Rosa Lyster, The New Yorker, May 2018
Bureau Finds New Words to Describe Precarious World by Caille Millner, San Francisco Chronicle, May 2018
Want to Fight Climate Change? Start by Watching Your Own Backyard, Rebecca Onion, SLATE, July 2018
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality, WYNC’s On the Media 2017
New Words Are Being Invented to Talk About Our Dying Planet, VICE Magazine, March 2017
Loss for Words: Art, Language and Living on a Changing Planet, Dr. Faith Kearns, Huffington Post, July 2016
Future Conditional: Artists and Designers at COP21 by Shannon Jackson, University of California at Berkeley News, December 2015
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality at COP21, The Creators Project, 2015
Grants & Awards
San Mateo County Civic Grant in partnership with Sanchez Art Center for SeeChange:Arts to Address Climate Impacts 2020-2022
Compton Foundation Grant 2017
Makers Muse Award of the Kindle Project, Muse Award & Grant 2016
Whitman Institute Foundation Grant 2016
RSF Finance: Seeding Possibilities Grant 2016
Finalist, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) & Art Practical – Social Practice AIR 2016
Finalist, French Ministry of Culture Environmental Arts Prize (C.O.A.L Art Prize) 2016
RSF Finance: Invoking the Pause Grant 2015
French Ministry of Culture ArtCOP21 Grant 2015
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