Gillian and I had a table in the Marfa Bookstore at the Chinati Open house last weekend, as a part of the Marathon Sustainability event we asked a number of questions about organic produce growing, shelter and art. The following we used as a thought-provoker for people to take away:
'Growing as intsallation art
Organic gardening as spatial art
Growing as kinetic art
Nature time scale, kinetic art
Alternative building types as installation art
One way to portray
One perspective on life and living
Living a sustainable life is performance art
Performance art is kinetic
Performance art is spatially reflective
Lifestyle choice is performance art
Permaculture is a lifestyle choice
Understand the workings of nature
Work within nature
Witness natural cycles
As they grow around you
Watch the kinetic spaces form
These spaces could be shelter
Shelter is sculpture
Sculpt out your home
Your home is your portrayal
Of your perception of your world
Your portrail of your perception of your world is art
Non-permanance, Kinetic art
Kinetic is performance art
Watch the light change
Where do you sleep?
Where do you eat?
Cycles of energy
Grow the energy that will in turn grow you
Cyclic dances to tend to the food
Sculpture of food
Art is alive
Exhibit your perception of the world
Exhibit your lifestyle through your shelter
Exhibit your lifestyle through your food
The food you grow
Haptic experience
Spatial art of kinetic, Growing food
Surround your shelter, Create the haptic
Tend to the haptic
Smell your art
See it grow
Expression of the dwellers perception
A mirror of cultural choice
A mirror of individual choice.'
