Mobile Parks
Four architecture students from Halifax, Nova Scotia, spent the day yesterday walking around town in a grassy wheel to make a statement about the lack of green space in the city. Their clever approach was reminiscent of a project carried out in Sierra's neck of the woods late last year, when the San Francisco-based art collective Rebar turned a downtown parking space into a temporary park. What do you think about art as activism? Can it make a difference?(Keep an eye on art and the environment in "The Green Life," a new section appearing in every issue of Sierra magazine.)
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Hmmm... browsing the web, I see that the Canadian Press gives a different story; namely:
"Gallaugher and three other students created the wheel as a school project. They said the intention was to simulate an eternal lawn environment and to question the North American fetish with manicured, fertilized lawns."
Perhaps the stunt works on several levels.
like all good art, it's open to interpretation
fascinating!
well, if it's intended as a comment on the lawn fetish, the guy should be pushing a gas mower and wearing a respirator. but then, that wouldn't be very subtle, would it?
That would actually be pretty funny... a guy pushing a lawnmower around around like a hamster.
There's a fascinating book about the american obsession with the lawn, and history of lawn care, called American Green.
Of course, then there's the Michael Pollen's take that we are working in service to propogate the lawn. Second Nature.
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