Trade-Off PLANTERS
Author:
Christine Mackey
Description:
This publication completes the art-project Aggressive Localism and Trade-Off, launched in 2008 at the Dock Art Centre in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim as part of AFTER - responding to a changed landscape.
Trade-Off proposed practical and redemptive tactics towards man-made structures and surfaces through the planting of native Irish wild-flower seeds, creating a platform for environmental issues materialised through civic action and movements on the land.
Led by public reciprocity between the individual and I, this project created a temporary and unique community of people who signed up to an 'an agreement', which outlined their role and my responsibility to complete the project as stated in the agreement in the form of this publication.
This modest offering, a visual record of the process testifies to the power of the subjective act that re-affirms our relationship to people and a place whilst acknowledging the complexity of ecological systems that manage our planet.
Editor: Christine Mackey
Publisher: Christine Mackey
Funder/Commissioner: Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, University of Ulster, Belfast, Leitrim and Roscommon Arts Office
Available from: Available for preview and purchase from www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1447022
Price: € 25.95