{"id":1546,"date":"2016-02-09T13:13:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2016-04-04T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T01:46:32","slug":"misplaced-priorities-and-a-wheatfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/misplaced-priorities-and-a-wheatfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Priorities and a Wheatfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/attachments\/arts_jen\/DENEStwintowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I was intrigued by the Wheatfield project that Claire Doherty briefly describes in Out of time Out of Place: Public Art (Now). \u00a0Doherty speak of Agnes Denes\u2019 Wheatfield in the context of urban utopias and artists that geographically and physiologically effect public space. \u00a0The Wheatfield project took place during the summer of 1982 in New York\u2019s Battery Park Landfill, and involved the planting of 1.8 acres of wheat, which Denes maintained throughout the summer with the help of volunteers in order to harvest 100 lbs of grain in the fall. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dennis stated the purpose of the project was &#8220;grew out of a long-standing concern and need to call attention to our misplaced priorities and deteriorating human values.&#8221; The field was a matter of blocks from the World Trade Center and the Stock Exchange, which causes any observer to question the effect that the work\u2019s immediate environment has upon its interpretation. \u00a0While we would typically class these two environments as near to opposite, Denes proves that the two can exist in harmony, and can dramatically change our perception of an environment. \u00a0To look at Manhattan from the center of a wheat field undoubtedly provides a different perspective than facing the skyscrapers from the sidewalk. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenmuseum.org\/c\/aen\/Issues\/denes.php\">http:\/\/greenmuseum.org\/c\/aen\/Issues\/denes.php<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2014\/05\/16\/photos_the_wheat_field_that_took_ov.php\">http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2014\/05\/16\/photos_the_wheat_field_that_took_ov.php<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was intrigued by the Wheatfield project that Claire Doherty briefly describes in Out of time Out of Place: Public Art (Now). \u00a0Doherty speak of Agnes Denes\u2019 Wheatfield in the context of urban utopias and artists that geographically and physiologically effect public space. \u00a0The Wheatfield project took place during the summer of 1982 in New &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/misplaced-priorities-and-a-wheatfield\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Misplaced Priorities and a Wheatfield&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[393,394,395,396,33],"coauthors":[397],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism-and-social-movements","category-public-art-and-spatial-politics","tag-agnes-denes","tag-art-installation","tag-environmental-art","tag-new-york","tag-public-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}