This book argues that the performance-based work in the featured
case studies contributes to the construction of food democracy
where the public takes back decision-making in shaping the food
system. It explores how contemporary artists translate scientific
research about local and global agricultural issues into life
stories that inform and engage their audiences and, in so doing,
transform passive food consumers into proactive food citizens. The
pairing of performing and farmscapes (complex webs of farmlands and
storylines) enables artists to use embodied practices to encourage
audiences to imagine a just and sustainable agri-food system and to
collaborate on making it a reality. The book arranges the case
studies on a trajectory that moves from projects that foreground
knowledge acquisition to ones that emphasize social engagement by
creating conversations and coalitions between farming and
nonfarming communities to a final one that pairs protest art and
political activism to achieve legally-binding changes in the
agricultural landscape.
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