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The arts and agricultural change
Ian Hunter discusses an arts and agricultural initiative being developed by Lancashire-based arts trust Littoral.
The recent discovery of BSE in cattle in Germany, has prompted the German government to implement a complete ban on consumption of bovine meat products and are urging an end to industrial farming methods throughout the EC. In Britain the banning of fox hunting has politicised and polarised the debate about the future of the countryside. Publication of the long-awaited government rural white paper has further underlined the serious erosion of rural communities and urges urgent new measures to combat the negative effects of social exclusion in rural areas. Clearly issues about the future of our farming communities, the crisis in agriculture, safe food and public health, and the politicisation of the countryside are back at the top of the political agenda. But, why should artists bother about the problems in farming? The arts have an important role to play in this context and the time has come for a reinvestigation by artists of the policies, values and practices upon which agriculture, food production and the countryside depend. Littoral (formerly Projects Environment) is developing an initiative in the Northwest of England which aims to investigate new ways that artists and arts...
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