From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments
Edited by Irene Georgia Tsatsos
Contributions by Janeth Aparicio Vazquez, Olivia Chumacero, Danielle A. Hill, Sean C. Lahmeyer, Hillary Mushkin, Heber Rodriguez, Shoop Rozario, Enid Baxter Ryce, and David Delgado Shorter
Designed by: Content Object, Kimberly Varella with Gabrielle Pulgar
Softcover with flaps, 272 pages
Publisher: Armory Center for the Arts, 2024
ISBN: 978-1-893900-23-3
Dimensions: 8.25 × 10.5 in.
Separations: Echelon Color, Los Angeles, CA
Printing: Ofset Yapımevi, Istanbul, Turkey
What do we do when the lights go out and the power grids fail? What happens when mass populations are systematically disconnected from the transnational capital they depend upon for basic needs? Where is the knowledge for securing food and shelter?
From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments is a compendium of artworks, insights, and information designed to inspire readers to explore speculative ecologies, ancient technologies, and possible scenarios of being in community with our other-than-human relations. This publication brings together 16 contemporary artists and artist teams responding to the themes of intergenerational knowledge, connection to land, and imagined futures. Within the grounded and earthy palette lie seeds of electric, fluorescent green and pink. The book fluctuates from black-and-white, uncoated text sections to coated, 4-color artist’s plates—offering both a visual and tactile signal of a shift in content.
