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Book SynopsisFrom Francis Alys and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use. This book brings together a range of international voices and artworks to illuminate this critical mass of practices.
Trade Review"The book is a wonderful hybrid, both a collection of essays and a catalog of projects by artists engaged in contemporary land use. Unlike landscape architecture, land use-according to the book's editors-more directly engages the relationship between environmental and economic structures, not to mention demands for spatial and environmental justice." Public Books
Table of ContentsIntroduction Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson, "Contemporary Art and the Politics of Land Use" I. Against the Abstraction of Space 1. Julian D. Myers-Szupinska, "After the Production of Space" 2. Trevor Paglen, "Experimental Geography: from Cultural Production to the Production of Space" 3. Sarah Kanouse, "Critical Daytrips: Tourism and Land-based Practice" Short entries on individual artworks: 4. Ursula Biemann, Sahara Chronicle (2006-9) 5. Kirsten Swenson, on Francis Alys, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002) 6. Amy Balkin, An Archive of Melting and Sinking (2012-) 7. Ruth Erickson, on the Otilith Group, The Radiant (2012) 8. Edgar Arceneaux & Julian Myers-Szupinska, Mirror Travel in the Motor City (2005-) II. Land Claims: Space and Subjectivity 9. Julia Bryan-Wilson, "Aftermath: Two Queer Artists Respond to Nuclear Spaces" 10. Jeannine Tang, "Look Again: Subjectivity, Sovereignty, and Andrea Geyer's Spiral Lands" 11. Kelly C. Baum, "Earth Keeping, Earth Shaking" Short entries on individual artworks: 12. Nuit Banai, on Sigalit Landau, DeadSee (2005) 13. Yazan Khalil, What is a Photograph? (2013) 14. Aaron Bobrow-Strain, on Allora & Calzadilla, Land Mark (footprints) (2001-2) 15. Shiloh Krupar, Where Eagles Dare (2013) 16. Nicholas Brown, The Vanishing Indian Repeat Photography Project (2011-) 17. Lorenzo Pezzani, on Decolonizing Architecture, Return to Jaffa (2012) 18. The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, The Border Crossed Us (2011) III. Geographies of Global Capitalism 19. T.J. Demos, "Another World, and Another: Notes on Uneven Geographies" 20. Ashley Dawson, "Documenting Accumulation by Dispossession" Short entries on individual artworks: 21. Dongsei Kim on Teddy Cruz, The Political Equator (2005-11) 22. Kelly C. Baum, on Santiago Sierra, Sumision(Submission, formerly Word of Fire) (2006-7) 23. James Nisbet, on Simon Starling, One Ton II (2005) 24. Giulia Paoletti, on George Osodi, Oil Rich Niger Delta (2003-7) 25. Ursula Biemann, Deep Weather (2013) 26. Luke Skrebowski, on Tue Greenfort, Exceeding 2 Degrees (2007) 27. Lize Mogel, Area of Detail (2010) IV. Urbanization With No Outside 28. Janet Kraynak, "The Land and the Economics of Sustainability" 29. Ying Zhou, "Growing Ecologies of Contemporary Art: Vignettes from Shanghai" Short entries on individual artworks: 30. Chunghoon Shin, on Flying City, All Things Park (2004) 31. David Pinder, on Nils Norman, The Contemporary Picturesque (2001) 32. Jenna Lloyd and Andrew Burridge, on Laura Kurgan, Million Dollar Blocks (2005) 33. Lize Mogel, on The Center for Urban Pedagogy, What Is Affordable Housing? (2010) 34. Robby Herbst, on Olga Koumoundouros, Notorious Possession (2012) 35. Paul Monty Paret, on eteam, International Airport Montello (2005-8) 36. Saloni Mathur, on Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2005-8)
