Midterm 3 Flashcards
Survive man
Pamphlets, Almarcegui
Pamplets showing inner cities wastelands. Address the mining industry specifically amplifying human’s consumption vs Earth’s recovery of its materials
Agras Volcano, Almarcegui
Acquired mineral rights of the Agras volcano, a volcano that had all of its minerals exhausted. Was made into an educated site that taught the volcano’s history, and mining laws. T
The privatization of minerals
Soil Erg, Pentecost
An art show based on the privatized soil and how it can’t be sustained due to the earth taking 100s of years to form and has a tendency to die
DRAWINGS: Pictures of ecologist of tried to offer alternatives to soils
GOLDBARS: The unsustainability as soil as a currency, due to soil dying easily. They kill it by taking the seeds, genetically modified seeds, and put fertilizers in them. Soil is also hard to transport and breaks apart thus the gold bars packed into soil break apart easily due to its fragility
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: A diorama of mining in the 1900s and was used to teach about the extraction industry. Pentecost made a similar one that was a compost that had a lists of land grabbing
Soil Not to Be Exhaustive, Cooking Section
Climavore is a diet designed to address climate change and the drastic changes in the seasons, and even employed a lawyer to create a document that protects the soil from the industry. Ukraine used to have extremely fertile soil but was continuously mined and extracted. There was a famine that occurred in Ukraine that killed millions.
Different Kinds of Air, Emily Parson-Lord
A bar that offered different air/atmosphere throughout different periods and even offered artificial air to buy. This gets people more sensitive to the taste of air so they can notice how the air changes around them.
Negative feedback because it never addressed the reason why the air has changed and privatized air
Pollution Pods, Pinsky
Five domes are connected to form a ring. Within each dome the air quality of five global cities is recreated. Norway had the healthiest air.
Negative because it never addresses why the air quality is decreasing in urban areas
This is the Public Domain, Amy Balkin
Balkin acquired land and tried to make it commons. She was unable to do so but did reveal and amplify how commons and how complicated legal processes work and are suited for corporations
Public Smog, Balkan
Balkin bought some of the atmosphere with credits or CO2 emissions, a common practice for corporations, and portrayed the atmosphere she had rights to as white cubes showing the absurdity of the concept of owning the atmosphere.
A positive feedback because it is amplifying an acute situation and the culprit but not a loop because it doesn’t offer an solution.
Invisible 5, Balkan
Audio tours of 23 sites that contain communities that are/or have become sacrifice zones (often impoverished/minorities communities)
245m3, Santiago Sierra
An art installation in a synagogue that used tubes attached to running car tailpipes to symbolize gas chambers. Visitors wearing masks experienced a glimpse into the Holocaust victims’ harrowing ordeals. This is a comment on how Automobbile corporations are doing to people by causing the 6th mass extinction. The reaction to it was not positive and was taken down showing as the work was no longer just representational and thus being contaminated.
Earth Summit/Minus Environment (Mobbile), Gustav Metzger
A car’s pump exhaust is pumped into a glass cube with plants.
A positive feedback because it calls out the Mobbile industry is killing us with C02 and we try to celebrate Cars as self expression
Beyond the Golden Umbrella, Yes men
Beyond the Golden Umbrella, Yes men
Posing as World Trade Representatives they speak at a conference where they provide the solution of the “leisure suit” where management can survey foreign employees as capitalism evolves into a Precariat. A hyperbole work identity correction.
Halliburton Website (Survival Ball), Yes men
A hyperbole work, the survival ball which is supposed to be self-sufficient (similar in appearance of microbes environments) and protect people from the effects of climate change. Criticisms of providing techno solutions despite being the cause originally and how we will eventually depend on technology to survive as the environment dies.
AI Meltdown Exposes Toyota Greenwashing, Yes men
A tough love deepfake where they pretended to be representative of Toyota. They reveal their new “AI” Electra claiming it’s environmentally conscious. Electra calls them out and the representative tries to shut Electra down, but Electra “shut downs” the representative (they faint)
Do we Really Need a New Anti-Imperialism, Schleuser.net
A display in an elevator with the intention of changing the portrayal and perception of immigrants and grant them rights by changing within, as Anti-imperialism is resistant from the outside.
Donkey Cast Alter, Sisco, Hock, & Avalos
A cart made to be reminiscent of carts displayed for tourists in Mexico. It has a depiction of a border patrol officer arresting an undocumented worker and was displayed in front of the federal courthouse of San Diego. It was quickly taken down and the America media didnt focus on its message (more focused on the censorship) because they see as undocumented workers as a invasive “species”.
Pos feedback, as it amplifies the acute state of immigration in the US
Art Reembolso/rebate 2
They were given a grant and used it to give $10 dollars to immigrants as the gov was taking money from immigrants despite them paying more taxes as a form of reimbursement.
Pos feedback because they wanted to change the image of illegal workers in America
Can You See Us Now? Subrosa
Showcases the consequences of capitalism’s shifts from mobile labor to mobile money, (a foreign workforce due to cheaper wages). It mostly focuses on the victims of this precariat capitalism, the women in these foreign countries. Such as in Mexico with the golden mills where the relaxed regulations cause these women to be taken advantage of.
ParaSITE Rakowitz
Using cheap materials, Rakowitz built housing that often was connected to the HVACs of buildings. This made the unhoused, to be akin to parasites an invasive species that takes from others. As the unhoused were often seen as. Unfortunately it couldn’t loop back into the social process due to it unable to pass policies that could’ve aided the unhoused
Return, Rakowitz
Rakowitz revitalizes an old store his father once owned and began to sell middle eastern products. Noticing how there were no Iraqi products (Date) being exported to America due to America’s war in the middle east. Rakowitz went out of his way to make a deal for some date syrup but was ultimately denied. Positive feedback because it amplified how biomass is treated in capitalism terms
Enemy kitchen, Rakowitz
A food truck that sold middle eastern food with Iraqi chefs and army veterans serving the food. This occurred when America was in war in the middle east.
Enemy kitchen, Rakowitz
A food truck that sold middle eastern food with Iraqi chefs and army veterans serving the food. This occurred when America was at war in the middle east.
Marquette of the Lamassu, Rakowitz
Marquette is a scale model of an ancient statue that was originally thought to be vandalized by ISIS. It was made of cans of Date syrup, a resource that is the primary source of Iraq’s economy, and many Date trees were killed during the war. It is located in the heart of Iraq’s colonizers.
Superga Biogas tool, Superflex
In a thailand village where the people had to collect wood for their own heat and lighting, Superflex installed a balloon-like structure. This structure was filled with human/animal stool and water, these ingredients would fermentate and produce nitrogen gases which would inflate the balloon. This gas would provide gas for cooking and lighting, and cost 250 dollars to build and produce the gas quicker than it takes to gather wood.
Guarana Power, Superflex
This beverage and company was made in response to how companies would use farmer’s raw resources to profit off of. The organization and farmers decided to use these corporations’ raw resources in retaliation with their branding. They would make their drinks have similar looking brand logos to corporations and the farmers got most of the profits.
Line of Green Paint, Alys
A dripped line of green paint throughout the border of Palestine and Israel, while the line isn’t acknowledged legally it is socially. Israel seized this line saying it has no legal significance justifying it.
When Faith moves mountains, Alys
Alys gathered volunteers from the university of Lima to dig a line in the sand, despite having many volunteers the line wasn’t very visible and was immediately covered with more sand. Alys is try to show the effects that biannuals shows have on the locals a hybrid audience of tourists and locals.\
Neg feedback because he used university students ignoring the shanty towns near where this demonstration occurred
160cm line, sierra
Sierra paid undocumented workers money (below minimum wage) to let him tattoo a line on their back. This act accidentally carried capitalism’s motive of exchange instead of art, though many defend saying that’s the point and Sierra reasons that its not complicit to capitalism because he was open about his methods and capitalism isn’t. This also treated the undocumented worker as a resource
68 people to block museum entrance, sierra
As the title states, Sierra paid immigrants to stand and block the entrance of a museum. The most backlash received by Sierra was from the working class, and they were complaining how the immigrants were getting paid more than them.
Form Measuring, Sierra
Sierra had undocumented workers hold a board for hours. But a blue collar worker started to talk to these people and some of them began to leave. This shows that when the working class is exposed the response is different/not wanted by the fine art institution this why the upper class hardly involves them in art.
Profile US: Invasive species, Munn
A series of works that ties invasive species to xenophobia and colonialism
BEESPACE: an observational bee hive that plays audio making it sound like the bees have escaped (by increasing the volume). The common reaction is fear and not empathy since we naturalize our fear of bees similar to what we do with immigrants.
SEED DISPERSAL: Had participants map invasive species with a gps that defined and showed urban centers to connect the invasive plants to colonialism (how they got there)
SENSING SITE: based on the many expeditions America sponsored to map out “unknown lands” of their territory. Munn wanted people to map out the invasive species, unlike how the many explorers ignored these invasive species seeing them as overgrowth
Profile US: Model Citizen, Munn
Munn created greencards of invasive species of plants with more info of the plant provided on the back of the card. Munn compares our treatment of immigrants to how science treats invasive species.
Victory Gardens, Future Farmers
In San Francisco, environmentalists partnered with the city to establish a supportive home gardening program. This initiative equips residents with tools and training to transform underutilized backyards into productive growing spaces, fostering urban sustainability. By addressing local needs for food security and community resilience, the program contributes to global efforts toward sustainable urban development
Neg While is proposes a solution it doesn’t address the problem of sustainable urban areas
F.R.U.I.T, Future farmers
A project showcases the entire life cycle of an orange, from production to utilization, to investigate urban agriculture and its global implications. By examining the local context of orange production, the initiative highlights the interconnectedness of local agricultural systems with global dynamics, urging consumers to consider their role in promoting sustainability.
This is not a Trojan Horse, Future Farmers
Italian farmers bring a moving horse sculpture to urbanized towns, aiming to revive interest in agriculture and pass on farming knowledge. Viewers engage by helping move the horse or sharing their experiences through writing. This initiative connects local farming traditions with global sustainability concerns, promoting appreciation for farming’s significance locally and globally.
Soil Kitchen, Future Farmers
Philadelphia’s Soil Kitchen trades soup for soil samples, addressing contamination and fostering community engagement. Workshops cover topics like wind turbine construction, inspired by literature like Don Quixote
Flatbread Society, Future Farmers
In Norway’s Bjørvika waterfront development, the Flatbread Society forms a permanent “common” area, engaging the community to shape the land’s use. This initiative challenges our modern relationship with the land and aims to restore the human-nature connection. By addressing local concerns, it contributes to global discussions on sustainable urban development and environmental harmony.
