1st Edition

Art, Farming and Food for the Future Transforming Agriculture

By Barbara L. Benish, Nathalie Blanc Copyright 2023
272 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the impact of artistic experiments in inspiring people to turn away from current food consumerism and take an active role in preserving, sustaining, and protecting the environment. As artists are expanding their practice into social justice and community concerns, erasing traditional forms of expression and integrating others, the culture around food and its production has... Read more

Introduction

1. Agriculture in Times of Ecology: A Brief History

2. The Honest Aesthetics of Food Representation

3. Anarchy in the Kitchen

4. Art and Research in Food-Based Situations

5. Art-Science Residencies as Experiments

6. ArtMill, Rural Residencies, and Environmental Education

7. Bread, Grains, and Ancient Cosmologies

8. "In-Between Places"

9. Nomads, Shepherding, and Territory

10. Poisons

11. Decolonizing Land and Body through Food Culture

12. The Food of Life

Biography

Barbara L. Benish is an artist and Founding Director of ArtMill, Czech Republic, and Fellow at the Social Practice Arts Research Center at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

Nathalie Blanc is a CNRS Director of Research at Paris Cité University, France.