Monocultures and rural mind-sets

by Wapke Feenstra

Working in and on THE RURAL is not just another topic - it is an institutional criticism of urban hegemony and centrifugation in art and culture. The countryside is nowadays consumed more than experienced, which means that pre-consumptions start taking over and gazing is common. This is dangerous. Because it is precisely at the land on which agriculture, mining, and tourism come together, where we all have a role as consumers in what the rural looks like.

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