S.O.S. Action Guide / Tattfoo Tan

Identifier:FA.B99.1638

Dimensions:28 x 22 cm

Creation dates:2014

Subjects: artists' books, environmental impact statements, green design, sustainable agriculture, sustainable development

Description:Perfect binding, digital printing. Edition 27 of 50. 2014. Published in association with an exhibition held at St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island, New York, June 7 - July 27, 2014. "Presented by ecoARTspace as part of an Art & Ecology Learning Guide Series addressing environmental Issues through replicable social practice art projects." Since 2009, Tan has developed a series of activities engaging his community on Staten Island and in greater New York City through sustainability activities that acknowledge the shortage of food on a global scale. S.O.S. stands for Sustainable Organic Stewardship, a pledge that Tan has taken to live more sustainably through hands on gardening, seed saving and sharing, and raising his own chickens. His art is a form of education of self and community through eco-actions that anyone can replicate. With this 36-page guide we are inviting educators, organizations and individuals to replicate what Tan did in New York anywhere in the world, to share his story and to create their own identity to help make the world a more sustainable place to live. In the guide are Tan's step-by-step process involved in developing and performing his S.O.S. projects"--Artists' website