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The Rural

The Rural

Myvillages

Paperback

Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art

Art History

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ISBN10: 0262537168
ISBN13: 9780262537162
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 12 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production.

What, and where, is the Rural? From the rocks that break a farmer's plough on a field in Japan to digital infrastructures that organize geographically dispersed interests and ambitions, vast parts of our lives are still connected and dependent on resources, production, and infrastructures located within rural geographies, and the rural remains a shared cultural space. This anthology offers an urgent and diverse cross-section of rural art, thinking, and practice, with writings that consider ways in which artists respond to the socioeconomic divides between the rural and the urban--from reimagined farming practices and food systems to architecture, community projects, and transnational local networks. Edited by three artists who have been working within rural situations and communities for the last twenty years, this anthology is formed as a document, tool, and navigation device for future artistic practice in which the rural is filtered through a lens sharpened by an audience-based model of art that practices from within the culture it addresses.

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