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Food For Thought visual arts We d Be So N i c e To C o m e H o m e To Arts Alive is now available by subscription. For just $15, you'll receive six issues of Arts Alive delivered directly to your home. So, just like your dog (or cat), comfortable shoes, and the spot you've worn into your couch, we'll be waiting for you when you come home. To subscribe call 984-9537 den of indigenous fruits, herbs, vegetables and other edible plants as a part o f the exhibition (Benner w i l l work in collaboration with Vancouver artist M i k e M a c D o n a l d on the garden). A billboard nearby w i l l list hundreds o f names o f indigenous plants. Benner is fascinated by the lessons that food can teach us about the history of our land and society. The issue is not a matter of nostalgia but rather of hard realities: since the arrival of Europeans in North America. 70% of native American plant diversity has been lost. Moreover, large-scale commercial food production--involving the use of high-yield hybrids and overspecialized monocrop planting practices--is steadily eroding the world's storehouse o f crops. Benner began studying agricultural engineering in 1969 but soon rejected the technological focus o f the field. For the next decade he worked on the Norfolk and Western Railroad and travelled extensively in the Americas. Public events w i l l include an artist's talk and reception April 11 at 7 p.m. in the gallery and a lecture by Patrick R o y Mooney, a leading activist on issues related to sustainable agriculture and biodiversity, and Jeannette Armstrong, an Okanagan writer and educator, on April 15 at 8 p.m. at S F U . Harbour Centre Campus. All That Has Value runs April 6 - M a y 12. at Presentation House Gallery. The exhibition has been curated by Peter White for the Mcintosh Gallery in London. Ontario, which is touring the show across Canada. " - Ron Benner, A n d the Trees G r e w Inwards (for Manuel Scorza), 1979/80. installation: kets, dried market four b & w photo vegetables murals, photo oil colours, newspaper London, Indo-American fragments, Ontario. Peruvian and herbs, two montas Mixed (wool medio shawls) photographic supermarand other food sold in Canadian items. Courtesy of Mcintosh Gallery, by Annie Hillis A grocery store, a hotel, an art gallery and an art exhibit: which one of these doesn't belong? Actually, they all do. All That Has Value, an exhibit by Ontario artist Ron Benner. w i l l be based at Presentation House Gallery ( P H G ) and w i l l include two off-site public art projects at Save-On-Foods in Park and Tilford and the Lonsdale Quay Hotel. Benner's subject matter is food-- its history, economics and politics. All That Has Value w i l l feature large photographic and installation works. Photographic murals at the Save-On-Foods location w i l l trace the history of corn, beans, potatoes and tomatoes. A t Lonsdale Quay Hotel, five murals w i l l be suspended high above the produce market, examining the history of the practice of patenting living organisms. A n area of the grounds outside P H G will be transformed into a gar- Annie Hillis is the Education House Coordinator at Presentation Gallery.