<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><style type="text/css">body { background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 255); }</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="1" class="">Hi all,</font><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Marina Zurkow here - I’m working with Stefani Bardin on the <a href="https://ipk.nyu.edu/ipk-working-groups/foodandthecity" class="">Food & the City working group at IPK</a> and share her long-term interest in connecting people, projects and systems.</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">(I’m a media and sometimes food-based artist. You can see some of my work </font><a href="http://o-matic.com" class="">here</a><font size="1" class=""> and </font><a href="http://www.chron.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/Artist-brings-complex-issues-to-the-table-5358323.php" class="">here</a><font size="1" class=""> and </font><a href="http://www.bitforms.com/exhibitions/zurkow-2016" class="">here</a><font size="1" class="">.</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">I am personally interested in the question of how artists (including myself) influence participants, with meaningful and material experiences that might have some lasting effects in day-to-day decisions.</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">I just wanted to add some links, and ask some questions.</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">First, questions:</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">We are hoping empyre-ites might know of analogous, layered maps that activate participants by sharing not only projects they can partake in, but also unpack the layers of a complex system - like food system.</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">How do artists you know invite participation and systems thinking?</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Second, s</font><span style="font-size: x-small;" class="">ome projects I find exemplary and exciting:</span></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Fernando García-Dory</font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="1" class="">Spanish artist, activist, and agroecologist who explores the relationship between contemporary culture and the natural world in his work. He investigates the myriad impacts of post-industrial capitalism upon rural communities and landscapes. Driven by a belief that art must be “proactive, not just reactive action,” García-Dory has become a leader in the field of socially engaged art and a pioneer of a new field connecting art and agroecology. Beginning with his 2004 project, The Shepherd’s School, in the Spanish Pyrenees, García-Dory has engaged one of the world’s most underrepresented and—at a population of an estimated 250 million—widespread communities: pastoralist and nomadic peoples. In 2007, the artist organized a conference that brought together two hundred representatives of nomadic and transhumant pastoralist communities from forty-four different countries. He had first intended the project to serve as a platform for discussion and “mutual recognition” between these groups. It quickly became much more: García-Dory’s gathering resulted in the creation of the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Pastoralists (WAMIP), a global organization that provides unprecedented representation and advocacy for these communities on an international scale.</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="1" class="">(from the Creative Time web site)</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="1" class="">Conflict Kitchen</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="1" class=""><a href="http://conflictkitchen.org/" class="">http://conflictkitchen.org/</a></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Serves food from countries with which
the united states is in conflict</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">"</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class="">our
current focus is on the food, culture and politics of Iran"</span></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Kate Rich et al, feral Trade Courier</font></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.feraltrade.org/cgi-bin/courier/courier.pl" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">http://www.feraltrade.org/cgi-bin/courier/courier.pl</font></a></div><div class="">The Feral Trade Courier is a live shipping database for a freight network running outside commercial systems. The database offers dedicated tracking of feral trade products in circulation, archives every shipment and generates freight documents on the fly.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>