Edited by The Hirsch Farm Project
Chicago: The Hirsch Farm Project, 1992
Pages: 62
Dimensions: 7" x 11"
Cover: soft
Binding: perfect bound
Process: offset
Color: two color, b&w on white paper, b&w on brown card stock
Edition size: unknown
ISBN: none

This full title of this 1991 edition of the Hirsch Farm Project is: MUD, or How Can Social and Local Histories Be Used As Methods of Conservation?. It documents the works of artists exploring the ideas of public art, community and environment. Artists included in this publication are Daniel Arnold, Robert Boszhardt, Mark Dion, Kate Ericson, Robert Horwich, Milenko Matnovic, Dan Peterman, Mitchell Kane, Gail Rothschild, and Mel Ziegler.

It is a wonderful document; the book is beautifully and carefully produced. There is a die cut circle in the brown card stock cover. It reveals the word "Mud" printed on a red background. The book contains short proposals by each of the participants in the gathering. Some of the proposals, like Dan Peterman's, were realized. Peterman collected a toxic spill of poisoned cow milk and turned it into cheese. The best thing about this project was the special refrigerator he created to display the cheese: he cut a window in the door so you could observe the hunk of cheese. Another gem in this book are several drawings produced by Mel Ziegler and the late Kate Ericson.