Midterm 3

Question 1

Pamphlets, Almarcegui

Answer 1

Pamplets showing inner cities wastelands. Address the mining industry specifically amplifying human’s consumption vs Earth’s recovery of its materials

Question 2

Agras Volcano, Almarcegui

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Soil Erg, Pentecost

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Soil Not to Be Exhaustive, Cooking Section

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Different Kinds of Air, Emily Parson-Lord

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Pollution Pods, Pinsky

Answer 6

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

Question 7

This is the Public Domain, Amy Balkin

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Public Smog, Balkan

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

Invisible 5, Balkan

Answer 9

Audio tours of 23 sites that contain communities that are/or have become sacrifice zones (often impoverished/minorities communities)

Question 10

245m3, Santiago Sierra

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Earth Summit/Minus Environment (Mobbile), Gustav Metzger

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Beyond the Golden Umbrella, Yes men

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Halliburton Website (Survival Ball), Yes men

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

AI Meltdown Exposes Toyota Greenwashing, Yes men

Answer 14

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)

Question 15

Do we Really Need a New Anti-Imperialism, Schleuser.net

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Donkey Cast Alter, Sisco, Hock, & Avalos

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Art Reembolso/rebate 2

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Can You See Us Now? Subrosa

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

ParaSITE Rakowitz

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Return, Rakowitz

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Enemy kitchen, Rakowitz

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

Enemy kitchen, Rakowitz

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Marquette of the Lamassu, Rakowitz

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

Superga Biogas tool, Superflex

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

Guarana Power, Superflex

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

Line of Green Paint, Alys

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

When Faith moves mountains, Alys

Answer 27

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

Question 28

160cm line, sierra

Answer 28

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

Question 29

68 people to block museum entrance, sierra

Answer 29

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.

Question 30

Form Measuring, Sierra

Answer 30

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.

Question 31

Profile US: Invasive species, Munn

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Profile US: Model Citizen, Munn

Answer 32

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.

Question 33

Victory Gardens, Future Farmers

Answer 33

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

Question 34

F.R.U.I.T, Future farmers

Answer 34

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.

Question 35

This is not a Trojan Horse, Future Farmers

Answer 35

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.

Question 36

Soil Kitchen, Future Farmers

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Flatbread Society, Future Farmers

Answer 37

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.