This anthology edited by Kathrin Böhm and Wapke Feenstra from Myvillages, offers an urgent and diverse cross-section of rural art, thinking and practice, and considers how artists respond to the socio-economic divides between the rural and the urban, from re-imagined farming practices and food systems to architecture, community projects and transnational local networks.
"Finally a serious and current (rather than nostalgic) analysis of rural culture and environment. The problematic relationship between contemporary art and rural land and lives is too often defined by urban viewpoints. The variety of approaches in this book open a whole new and respectful field that is not as far afield as it seems." - Lucy R. Lippard
Part of Whitechapel Gallery's acclaimed Documents of Contemporary Art series of anthologies which collect writing on major themes and ideas in contemporary art, and published by Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press.
Artists include Lara Almarcegui, Lina Bo Bardi, Ruth Ewan, Forensic Architecture, Futurefarmers, Fernando García-Dory, Grizedale Arts, Sigrid Holmwood, Huit Façettes, Brian Jungen, M12, Renzo Martens, Lala Meredith-Vula, Grace Ndiritu, OHO Group, Robert Smithson, Rirkrit Tiravanja, Andrea Zittel, Stephen Willats, Bedwyr Williams, Franciska Zólyom.
Writers include Kenneth Anders, Homi K. Bhabha, Sacha Bronwasser, Okwui Enwezor, Hal Foster, Freeyad Ibrahim, Julia Kristeva, Henri Lefebvre, Marco Marcon, Georgy Nikich, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul O’Neill, Mike Pearson, Doina Petrescu, Tomasz Rakowski, Natalie Robertson, Marco Scotini, Vandana Shiva, Monika Szewczyk, David Teh, Colin Ward, Grit Weber, Stephen Wright.
Paperback, 240 pages, 210 x 145 mm, 2019
