Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. INTRODUCTION: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Land Use 1
5. PART I. AGAINST THE ABSTRACTION OF SPACE
6. 1. After the Production of Space 17
7. 2. Experimental Geography: From Cultural Production to the Production of Space1 34
8. 3. Critical Day Trips: Tourism and Land-Based Practice 43
9. ARTWORKS
10. 4. Sahara Chronicle (2006–9) 57
11. 5. On Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002) 60
12. 6. A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting (2012–) 63
13. 7. On The Otolith Group, The Radiant (2012) 67
14. 8. Mirror Travel in the Motor City (2005–) 70
15. PART II. LAND CLAIMS: SPACE AND SUBJECTIVITY
16. 9. Aftermath: Two Queer Artists Respond to Nuclear Spaces 73
17. 10. Look Again: Subjectivity, Sovereignty, and Andrea Geyer’s Spiral Lands 93
18. 11. Earthkeeping, Earthshaking 110
19. ARTWORKS
20. 12. Sigalit Landau, DeadSee (2005) 122
21. 13. What Is a Photograph? (2013) 125
22. 14. On Allora & Calzadilla, Land Mark (Foot Prints) (2001–2) 128
23. 15. Where Eagles Dare (2013) 131
24. 16. The Vanishing Indian Repeat Photography Project (2011–) 134
25. 17. On The Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, Return to Jaff a (2012) 139
26. 18. The Border Crossed Us (2011) 142
27. PART III. GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM
28. 19. Another World, and Another . . . : Notes on Uneven Geographies 147
29. 20. Documenting Accumulation by Dispossession 161
30. ARTWORKS
31. 21. On Teddy Cruz, The Political Equator (2005–11) 179
32. 22. On Santiago Sierra, Sumisión (Submission, formerly Word of Fire) (2006–7) 182
33. 23. On Simon Starling, One Ton II (2005) 185
34. 24. On George Osodi, Oil Rich Niger Delta (2003–7) 188
35. 25. Deep Weather (2013) 191
36. 26. On Tue Greenfort, Exceeding 2 Degrees (2007) 193
37. 27. Area of Detail (2010) 196
38. PART IV. URBANIZATION WITH NO OUTSIDE
39. 28. The Land and the Economics of Sustainability 199
40. 29. Growing Ecologies of Contemporary Art: Vignettes from Shanghai 218
41. ARTWORKS
42. 30. On FlyingCity, All-things Park (2004) 236
43. 31. On Nils Norman, The Contemporary Picturesque (2001) 239
44. 32. On Laura Kurgan and Eric Cadora, Million Dollar Blocks (2005) 242
45. 33. On the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Affordable Housing Toolkit (2010) 245
46. 34. On Olga Koumoundouros, Notorious Possession (2012) 248
47. 35. On eteam, International Airport Montello (2005–8) 251
48. 36. On Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2005–8) 254
49. CONTRIBUTORS 257