| Sumario: | In recent years the model of lone, self-contained art making has come under pressure from a number of outside influences. These include feminist and poststructuralist critiques, but also a greater awareness of the importance of global systems that displaces artists from their formerly imagined center. A number of artists are taking advantage of this new way of thinking to reexamine the relationship between self, the environment, art, and the public sphere. Common Plants, an interdisciplinary project financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research/Creation Program in Canada, explores these changing parameters of art-making through the development of a transcultural cycle of site-specific performances. The work of the Common Plants project is discussed.
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