ORG :: socialmediagroup :: Macy Gallery 2003

The Org exhibit in Macy Gallery at Columbia University dealt with many of the same issues present in the rooftop garden: notions of sustainability, of the visualization then actualization of a local food movement, of food patterns as resistance to the massification of homogenized American food culture. Also, we wanted to share our experience of the Sky Garden with a broader audience, to inspire them to seek out innovative ways to raise food and eat, no matter where one lives. To become informed about contemporary food issues, we undertook a cross-disciplinary research study into practices inherent in the industrial food complex- which included genetically modified organisms, factory farming techniques and consequences, the protests surrounding the WTO and farm subsidy and trade politics of the United States and other peripheral issues. We also spent a good deal of time on the dialectics of these systems-practices that existed in defiance to the above systems of production. By spending a week on an organic farm, joining in a Community Supported Agriculture venture, shopping and eating from the farmers markets, and researching the growing local food movement, we began to see that by taking part in direct action or critical enactments in micro-political arenas, an alternative future could be charted regardless of mass ideologies.

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