MyVillages sent "Kip" (chicken, in Dutch) after asking themselves, "what farm animal would we like to have on a t-shirt?" MyVillages visited the Bay area in 2008 at Ted's invitation, to teach in the social practice program at CCA as well as collaborate with Ted and Susanne Cockrell (Fieldfaring) on their contribution for "The Gatherers" exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. "Kip" comes from the drawings made by MyVillages as part of farm drawing sessions used to facilitate storytelling and to notate experience, personal, histories and memory with community members, leading to the publication of a collaborative issue of Fieldfaring's "Meadow Network" newspaper.

Working internationally for more than fifteen years, Myvillages (artists Kathrin Böhm, Wapke Feenstra, and Antje Schiffers) collaborate with rural communities in ways that reflect and engage local cultures, economies and resources. Myvillages’ work addresses the relationship between the rural and the urban, looking at different forms of production, pre-conceptions and power relationships, whilst passionately questioning the cultural hegemony of the urban. The collective is involved in co-operative projects in various villages and landscapes around the world, with the aim to bring a new dynamism to solidified notions of local resources and production, agriculture and culture, internal and external perception.

Their projects take place all over the world, through their own initiation and in collaboration with institutions such as Grizedale Arts and the German Federal Cultural Foundation, among others. They recently edited "The Rural" for the Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art Series, as well as mounting a survey exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery.
http://www.myvillages.org/