{"uid":"M0fmweR2dIExnbrw","type":"artist","tags":["sculpture","videoinstallation"],"group":"yes","group_name":"Ryan Griffis","project_title":"A Great Green Desert","summary":"A Great Green Desert is an experimental documentary project that examines two massive terraforming projects in the Americas, the US Corn Belt and Brazil\u2019s \u201cSoy Frontier\u201d. The project brings together documentary field work, archival and literary research, and interviews with experts, scholars, and activists. The title, \u201cA Great Green Desert,\u201d is derived from a passage in Herbert Quick\u2019s 1922 novel Vandemark\u2019s Folly. Quick\u2019s book follows a fictional homesteader, who like many 19th century European settlers, describes his encounter with the prairie\u2019s vast grasslands in sublime terms; \u201cI shall never forget the sight. It was like a great green sea.\u201d This project proposes that this \u201cgreat green sea,\u201d home to a variety of human, plant and animal lives, has undergone a process of desertification, driven by mechanized agriculture and settler colonial ideologies.","space":"This work can be shown as a 4-channel video installation (4x 1080 digital video, stereo audio [English], 10:30); \n\nwith or without these 3 components of the work, (preferably with): \n\n\n1) Documentary interviews with members of MST member and scientist in Brazilia, organic farmer in Illinois and scholar at UC Berkeley  (1080 digital video, stereo audio;\n2) 2 sets of 500 offset prints, each 4-color, 2-sided, 17 x 22 in.\n3) six altered globes, dimensions variable","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/224980777","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Sarah","surname":"Ross","email":"sarahlynnross@gmail.com","dni_type":"Other","dni":"ILDL R200-7927-6923","address":"1106 N. Spaulding Ave.","city":"Chicago","nacionality":"U.S.","country_id":"236","birthdate":"1976-11-13T06:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1976-11-13T06:00:00.000Z","telephone":"13232521336","web":"https:\/\/www.regionalrelationships.org\/tewna\/project\/a-great-green-desert-ryan-griffissarah-ross\/"}