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Community Crossroads (the farm)
The Farm is a social art work and incorporates the divergent fields of all the arts and literature, education, appropriate technology, community service, public health, the environment, economics, city planning and real estate. It is a vehicle for…
Tags: animals, Bonnie Sherk, environment
Which Hunt
Maze-like environment for participants dealing with frustration and anger. (Foley 1980: 144)
Tags: environment, Howard Fried, SFAI
Portable Park III
The third site was Maiden Lane, a downtown street near the major shopping area near Union Square. The whole street was closed for two days, covered with turf, trees, and even more animals (cows, goats, chickens, sheep, llamas). This was a greater…
Tags: animals, Bonnie Sherk, environment, site-specific
Portable Park I
Portable Park I was situated on the dead end section of the freeway that was used primarily by the Highway Patrol for dispensing tickets. For one day the area was covered in live turf, live palm trees, a cow and myself. It was a living tableau which…
Tags: animals, Bonnie Sherk, environment, site-specific
Oil
Henderson […] with Hawley and Young, brought attention to a massive oil spill that had taken place on January 29, 1969, along the Santa Barbara coast: the artists spelled out the word oil in biodegradable dye five times in San Francisco Bay off the…
Tags: environment, Mel Henderson
Portable Park II
The second site of the Portable Park […] was on two concrete islands underneath a freeway off-ramp. For this site there were more cows and also chickens involved, picnic tables, and bales of straw. It was a participatory piece for many…
Tags: animals, Bonnie Sherk, environment, site-specific