“What sounds will you create or play to help your urban farm grow?”

Photo by Daniel Shea.

Question by Peaches, Electronic Musician and Performance Artist, Berlin

By Smart-Urban-Stage
Sept. 2011

Excerpts:

Urban farming is an increasingly important part of sustaining our future and taking control of what and how we eat.

It is getting more and more difficult, especially in urban environments to obtain real fresh organic food. To motivate ourselves to carry through with this, it would be interesting to take part in the ongoing experiment about how and what specific music can help your plants grow.

Maybe a new kind of music will be discovered and developed that directly links to the growth of urban gardens.

To capture the creative expression through movement, Shea brought along some Chicago area teens that work in hip hop dance. “The images attempt to connect the physicality and creative expression of dancing to music (sounds) to the labor of farming. Both dancing and urban farming exist as new and sometimes subversive forces on the frontier for urban re-imagining.”

See photo answers by:

Xavier Delory Photographer, Brussel
Katherine Squier, Photographer, Austin, Texas
Daniel Shea, Photographer, Chicago
Yuji Hamada, Photographer, Tokyo

See all images and answers here.