Industrial Harvest
By martha
I spent a several weeks this summer hanging around with Sarah Kavage, creator and executor of Industrial Harvest, an elaborate — and supercool — project aimed at sorting out and making manifest the intimate relationship between the commodity futures market, the city of Chicago, and the food we eat. And then I wrote about it, and the Reader put it on the cover of the paper. [Kudos, by the way, to the Reader art department. That flour sack is really pretty.]
Just in time, too, as all of a sudden the wheat market is again front page news.
Sarah will be in town for a few more months, so if you haven’t gotten your bag of flour, you’ll have plenty of additional opportunities. In fact, she’ll be at Veggie Bingo tomorrow (August 11) talking about her project, distributing flour, and maybe playing a few rounds. That’s from 6-8 at the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia. Come on out!