Contributors: Lara Almarcegui, Amy Balkin, James Boyle, Fernando Bryce, Susan Canney, Chu Yun, Jimmie Durham & Maria Thereza Alves, Feng Yuan, Futurefarmers & Free Soil, Tue Greenfort, Thomas Hirschhorn, Katie Holten, Jiang Jun, Jeffrey Kastner, Winona LaDuke, Learning Group, Lucy R. Lippard, Wangari Maathai, Jonathan Meuser, Jason Middlebrook, Nils Norman, David Naguib Pellow & Lisa Sun-Hee Park, PLATFORM, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Paul Schmelzer, Peter Schmelzer, Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus, Cameron Sinclair, Stephanie Smith, Bruce Sterling, Kirstine Roepstorff, Rirkrit Tiravanija, David Toop, Vitamin Creative Space, Insa Winkler, the Worldwatch Institute and Zheng Guogu.
Artists’ plates section: Claire Bishop on Francis Alÿs, Gemma Lloyd on Donna Conlon, Max Andrews on Henrik Håkansson and Insa Winkler, Diana Baldon on Marine Hugonnier, Mariana Cánepa Luna on Alfredo Jaar, Zoë Gray on Brian Jungen, Lars Bang Larsen on Aleksandra Mir, Richard Flood on Richard Prince, Alejandra Aguado on Tomás Saraceno, Francesco Manacorda on Simon Starling.
The anthology publication 'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook' was commissioned by the
Royal Society of Art (RSA) in partnership with the
Arts Council England. Its London
launch in December 2006 coincided with the symposium ‘
No Way Back? organised by
the RSA, Arts Council England in partnership with the
London School of Economics & Political Science.
Accompanying the first year of the
RSA’s Arts & Ecology programme, this anthology includes commissioned essays and works by artists, as well as new and reprinted texts and interviews by ecologists, cultural theorists, activists and curators. These contributions explored art’s varied responses to concepts of territory, the Earth and the emergencies of 21st century. Partly a genealogy of ‘land’ and the evolving understanding of ‘the environment’ since the 1960s—with the activities of Land artists and the emergence of a popular eco-consciousness—the
publication examines whether and how our conceptions of art and artists are relevant to a global debate about the planet's future. It considered where, how, and why art might operate—whether through grass roots efforts, tangential approaches, propaganda, activism or acts of resistance.
