ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the contemporary visual art which explores the conjunction of mass extinction and habitat destruction. It discusses the work of artists like Jumana Manna and the Seed Broadcast Collective, whose anticapitalist, decolonial art provides hopeful glimpses of human and more-than-human flourishing in an age of planetary ecocide. The Green Revolution amounted to a privatization of the seed commons, a dramatic but all too little understood global transition that winnowed down the world's crop varieties dramatically since it meant the abandonment of the local varieties known as landraces. In addition, the collective provides copies of the Journal as a tool kit that museum attendees may take home, with the aim of helping them begin their own practices of seed saving and sustainable agri-Culture. The work of visual artists such as those the authors have discussed in this essay are a key part of the cultural work necessary to decolonize seed and support practices of seed commoning.
