-Achim Steiner, United Nations Under Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
"I am excited to see this book on peace parks. By providing useful case studies as well as measured analytical thought, it is a milestone in the literature on this topic. It presents peace parks not necessarily as a panacea, but as an important contribution toward more sustainable conservation as well as for international relations - while at the same time pointing out some of the potential obstacles to achieving these goals. I applaud the authors for taking on such an important and relevant topic in conservation today and look forward to seeing how action on the ground will be supported through this approach."
-Lynne Cooke, Curator, Dia Art Foundation
"Book-ended by Cage's 4'33'' and Warhol's a: a novel, by `silence' and `glossolalia', Liz Kotz's text tracks a hitherto uncharted trajectory in what she terms "the turn to language" in vanguard art practices of the 1960s and 70s. Kotz's nuanced probing of linguistic operations serving instrumental or instructional ends and/or deployed as material entities illuminates an impressively wide range of works in various fields from experimental music and poetry, to the visual arts. Acutely attentive to that era's displacement of conventional categories, she constructs a network of cross disciplinary readings that freshly parses the interrelationships of Fluxus, Conceptual, performance and post-minimal art works with concurrent disciplines."