The RSA and Arts Council England publishes today LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook. Edited by writer and curator Max Andrews, the book presents a compendium of essays, dialogues and commissioned projects by artists, ecologists, cultural theorists, activists and curators exploring art's varied modes of response to notions of territory, cultural production and the emergencies of the 21st century. Original contributions from international practitioners as well as reproductions of existing artworks accompany artists' on-the-page 'studio visits'.
Contributors to the book include Francis Alÿs, Futurefarmers & Free Soil, Tue Greenfort, Henrik Håkansson, Thomas Hirschhorn, Marine Hugonnier, Brian Jungen, Jeffrey Kastner, Lucy R. Lippard, Wangari Maathai, Jason Middlebrook, Aleksandra Mir, Nils Norman, David Naguib Pellow & Lisa Sun-Hee Park, PLATFORM, Richard Prince, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Tomás Saraceno, Paul Schmelzer, Peter Schmelzer, Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus, Simon Starling, Kirstine Roepstorff, Rirkrit Tiravanija, David Toop, Vitamin Creative Space, Insa Winkler, the Worldwatch Institute and Zheng Guogu.
In part a genealogy of 'land' and what has been understood by 'the environment' since the 1960s - with the activities of 'Land artists' and the emergence of a popular 'eco'-consciousness - LAND, ART explores how art and being an artist can be relevant to the global debate about the future of the planet, and where, how and why art might operate - at the grass roots, at a tangent, as propaganda, activism or as resistance.
The book is available for £20 from Cornerhouse Publications. If you would like to order acopy please click here.
LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook
Edited by Max Andrews
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