MARK BREST VAN KEMPEN ENVIRONMENTAL ART
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LIVING FROM LAND
Colusa, CA
1998
This thirty day performance consisted of living within a five square mile area of wilderness and bringing no food with me. I ate only the plants and animals from the site. The project was an inversion of landscape painting that reoriented the artist’s relationship with land. Instead of standing outside of the landscape and taking it in with my eyes, I stood inside it and took it in with my mouth.
A video installation documenting this performance has been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.