Pages
3-25
Document Type
Article
Abstract
[From first paragraph] This paper describes the role of socially engaged art practices in opening up our pedagogical imaginations to foster reflexive and creative approaches to building the local food movement. These contemporary artistic engagements with local food or ‘food system localization’ are in the genre of what has been called social practice artwork or, in other words, art practices that focus less on the production of a singular aesthetic object and more on the relational and experiential aspects of participatory interaction in a creative process (e.g., Kester; Finkerpearl). In this context, I examine social practice artworks that create experimental communities built around shared practices of growing and eating locally grown food in cities; such as FARM:shop in Dalston, UK, or Edible Estates, on suburban front lawns around the world.
Recommended Citation
Bieler, Andrew. "Contemporary Art Exhibitions as Places of Learning About Reflexive Food System Localization." Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts, vol. 2, 2017 , pp. 3-25.
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