Critical landscapes : art, space, politics /

"From Francis Alÿs 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, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movement...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Scott, Emily Eliza, 1971-, Swenson, Kirsten.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oakland, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Against the abstraction of space
  • After the production of space / Julian Myers-Szupinska
  • Experimental geography : from cultural production to the production of space / Trevor Paglen
  • Critical day trips : tourism and land-based practice / Sarah Kanouse
  • Sahara Chronicle (2006-9) / Ursula Biemann
  • On Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002) / Kirsten Swenson
  • A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting (2012- ) / Amy Balkin
  • On The Otolith Group, The Radiant (2012) / Ruth Erickson
  • Mirror Travel in the Motor City (2005- ) / Edgar Arceneaux and Julian Myers-Szupinska
  • Part II Land claims : space and subjectivity
  • Aftermath : two queer artists respond to nuclear spaces / Julia Bryan-Wilson
  • Look again : subjectivity, sovereignity, and Andrea Geyer's Spiral Lands / Jeannine Tang
  • Earthkeeping, earthshaking / Kelly C. Baum
  • On Sigalit Landau, DeadSee (2005) / Nuit Banai
  • What Is a Photograph? (2013) / Yazan Khalili
  • On Allora & Calzadilla, Land Mark (Foot Prints) (2001-2) / Aaron Bobrow-Strain
  • Where Eagles Dare (2013) / Shiloh Krupar
  • The Vanishing Indian Repeat Photography Project (2011- ) / Nicholas Brown
  • on The decolonizing architecture art residency Return to Jaffa (2012) / Lorenzo Pezzani
  • The Border Crossed Us (2011) / Catherine D'Ignazio, Amber Day, and Nicole Siggins with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things
  • Part III Geographies of global capitalism
  • Another world, and another ... : Notes on Uneven Geographies / T.J. Demos
  • Documenting accumulation by dispossession / Ashley Dawson
  • On Teddy Cruz, The Political Equator (2005-11) / Dongsei Kim
  • On Santiago Sierra, Sumisión (Submission, formerly Word of Fire) (2006-7) / Kelly C. Baum
  • On Simon Starling, One Ton II (2005) / James Nisbet
  • On George Osodi, Oil Rich Niger Delta (2003-7) / Giulia Paoletti
  • Deep Weather (2013) / Ursula Biemann
  • On Tue Greenfort, Exceeding 2 Degrees (2007) / Luke Skrebowski
  • Area of Detail (2010) / Lize Mogel
  • Part IV
  • Urbanization with No Outside
  • The land and the economics of sustainability / Janet Kraynak
  • Growing ecologies of contemporary art : vignettes from Shanghai / Ying Zhou
  • On FlyingCity, All Things Park (2004) / Chunghoon Shin
  • On Nils Norman, The Contemporary Picturesque (2001) / David Pinder
  • On Laura Kurgan and Eric Cadora, Million Dollar Blocks (2005) / Jenna M. Lloyd and Andrew Burridge
  • On The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Affordable Housing Tooklit (2010) / Liz Mogel
  • On Olga Koumoundouros, Notorious Possession (2012) / Robby Herbst
  • On eteam, International Airport Montello (2005-8) / Paul Monty Paret
  • On Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2005-8) / Saloni Mathur.