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EDC Project Proposal: Kill your lawn; get paid!
What can encourage diehard lawn owners to try something new? Can cultivating a meadow be sexy? How can the toxicity of the pesticide-maintained monocultural lawn be exposed for the devastating and harmful environmental catastrophe that it is? This project tackles the toxicity of the suburban lawn.
It is estimated that monocultural lawns take up 1.9-2% of all land surface in the US, about 50 million acres, or the size of Georgia. 35% of Baltimore County land is private lawn turf. The practice of keeping a tidy, clean, pristine, well-maintained lawn is so ubiquitous, it can often feel hard to imagine an alternative.
<font face=”inherit”>Playing on artist Maia Chao’s “Look at Art. Get Paid” project, “Kill your lawn; get paid!” is an art-exchange offering where artists offer alternatives to suburban lawn-devotees. Canvasing in specific county neighborhoods, a team of eco-art-stewards will offer lawn owners one of the following services:
- Money (or art) in exchange for lawn to meadow conversion
- The opportunity to display a sculpture on their lawn that, from their precarity and size, will discourage and disrupt mowing and treatment cycles, allowing weedy natives to return (inspired by Ellie Iron’s Lawn (Re)Disturbance laboratory)
- Community movement / dance workshops to encourage re-imagination and transformation
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Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory – A collaboration with seeds, time, and weeds
Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory – A collaboration with seeds, time, and weeds
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2 Replies
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Clearly needed project in any suburban development.
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So creative. I love this.
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