The Feminist Pedagogy of SAVE NATURE-SAVE CULTURE: A Double-Coded Art Installation

Abstract

SAVE NATURE-SAVE CULTURE (2006), is a site-specific art installation in New York City’s Le Petit Versailles (LPV), a public garden maintain by neighbor volunteers (see Figure 1). Issues concerning housing, graffiti, gender and sexuality—including queer representation, women, and the transgendered—are regular themes in LPV programming, along with activities, events, and meetings often involving music, poetry, and visual arts. As an alternative public arts space, LPV is a small garden located in the East Village in an effort toward environmental sustainability. My installation addressed the issue of sustainability of community gardens. This visual essay concerns a feminist pedagogy of double-coding that I embedded and embody with this art project.