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This chapter explores the farming practices of artists in Japan as a means of grappling withenvironmental and ecological issues. In the wake of the earthquake, tsunami and nucleardisaster of 11 March 2011, many people started to consider that ‘modern’, technologicallyadvanced societies are incapable of managing breakdowns in complex technical systems. Acase in point was the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown. Artists and creativepractitioners thus started to imagine what life in the shadow of such disasters might look likeand more importantly how one might nd more sustainable ways of living that are not proneto such breakdowns. Specically, this resulted in the artists transforming themselves into‘natural’ and organic farmers. Based on ethnographic eld research conducted since 2012, Idescribe this phenomenon as it unfolded in the countryside of the Niigata prefecture, drivenby artists who took steps to live independent of energy systems by farming in a way thatresponds to collapsing ecosystems. I show that, in relation to both energy and ecosystems,their farming methods have a particular potential for exploring sustainable practices whilealso performing concrete reparative gestures.
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