Green acres
Subtitle: artists farming fields, greenhouses and abandoned lots
By: Sue Spaid
Contributors: Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, Ohio); American University (Washington, D.C.). Museum; Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, Va.)
Publisher: Contemporary Arts Center
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780917562822
Subjects: Community gardens; Agriculture in art; Gardens in art; Backyard gardens; Exhibitions
Other titles: Artists farming fields, greenhouses and abandoned lots
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Contemporary Arts Center, Richard & Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Sept. 21, 2012-Jan. 20, 2013 and travelling to the American University Museum, Washington, DC and the Arlington Art Center, Arlington, summer 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (page 236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Forewords & acknowledgements / Raphaela Platow ; Sue Spaid; title: Ten explanations / Atelier van Lieshout ; Agnes Denes ; Lonnie Graham ; Hans Haacke ; Fritz Haeg ; Haha ; Harrison Studio ; Carsten Höller/Rosemarie Trockel ; Mei-ling Hom ; Alison Knowles ; The Land Foundation ; N55 ; Tobias Rehberger ; Susan Leibovitz Steinman; title: Farming awareness / Kim Abeles ; Beehive Design Collective ; Lauren Bon ; Andrea Bowers ; Susanne Cockrell/Ted Purves ; David Cohen ; Critical Art Ensemble ; Agnes Denes ; Futurefarmers ; Fritz Haeg ; Harrison Studio ; Carsten Höller/Rosemarie Trockel ; Patricia Johanson ; Nance Klehm ; Kathryn Miller ; Matthew Moore ; Ree Morton ; Nils Norman.; title: Farming innovations / Lauren Bon/Metabolic Studio ; Mel Chin ; Susanne Cockrell/Ted Purves ; Jenna Didier/Olivier Hess ; Futurefarmers ; Lonnie Graham ; Hans Haacke ; Harrison Studio ; Carsten Höller ; Leah Gauthier ; Sakarin Krue-On ; L.U.R.E. Projects ; Matthew Moore ; N55 ; National Bitter Melon Council ; NOFA ; Claire Pentecost ; Permaganic Authenticated ; Tobias Rehberger ; Mara Adamitz Scrupe ; Åsa Sonjasdotter ; Shannon Young; title: Farming communities / Atelier van Lieshout ; Baltimore Development Cooperative ; Susanne Cockrell/Ted Purves ; Ecological Greenhouse ; Futurefarmers ; Homemeadow Song ; The Land Foundation ; L.U.R.E. Projects ; Tobias Rehberger ; Bonnie Ora Sherk ; Tattfoo Tan; title: Community farming / Lauren Bon/Metabolic Studio ; Lonnie Graham ; Haha ; J.J. McCracken ; Nils Norman ; Permaganic Co ; SoA Permaculture Studio ; Susan Leibovitz Steinman ; Village of Arts and Humanities.; title: Species diversification / Dan Devine ; Ines Doujak ; Anya Gallaccio ; Leah Gauthier ; Ecological Greenhouse ; Mei-ling Hom ; Sakarin Krue-On ; Mara Adamitz Scrupe ; SoA Permaculture Studio ; Åsa Sonjasdotter ; Alan Sonfist ; Susan Leibovitz Steinman ; Koen Vanmechelen ; Andrea Zittel; title: Farming mysticism / Agnes Denes ; Lonnie Graham ; Homemeadow Song ; The Land Foundation ; Bonnie Ora Sherk; title: Six essays: 2050 manifesto / Joel Salatin ; Agri-art: the death of agri-culture or rise of cooperatives? / Mark Cooley ; What it took to grow 2 acres of wheat on $4 .5 billion of Manhattan real estate / Agnes Denes ; Beginning about forty years ago ... / Newton and Helen Harrison ; Farm as form/Farming as practice / Ted Purves ; EOE (Equal Opportunity Eating) POP-UPS / Susan Leibovitz Steinman.