"The Long Now covers the collaborative art practice of filmmaker Elle Flanders and architect Tamira Sawatzky, collectively known as Public Studio. A wide-ranging interview with the artists by curators Emelie Chhangur and Philip Monk interrogates the frameworks from which their engaged practice emerged. Additional reflections on their work come from essays by T. J. Demos, John Greyson, Susan Schuppli, and Jayne Wilkinson.

"Public Studios creates large-scale public art works, lens-based works, films, and immersive installations. Grounded in the personal, social, and political implications of landscape, Public Studio's multidisciplinary practice engages themes of political dissent, war and militarization, and ecology and urbanization. Deeply collaborative and site-responsive, their work forges new understandings of what it means to be an engaged citizen today." (Quote taken from the back cover.)

Contents: Introduction, by Emelie Chhangur and Philip Monk; Centre for Incidental Activisms, by Emelie Chhangur; Extension/Extraction/Exploitation: Philip Monk and Emelie Chhangur Interview Public Studio, by Philip Monk, Emelie Chhangur, Elle Flanders, and Tamira Sawatzky; What We Lose in Metrics, by Public Studios; Gaming the Environment: On the Media Ecology of Public Studio, by T. J. Demos; Public Proxies, by Susan Schuppli; A Dark Meteorology, by Jayne Wilkinson; There There: Mapping Twelve Digs, by John Greyson; Portfolio of Work.