See-through trash containers? Hell yeah! Here’s Danish artist Tue Greenfort showing off his stealth installation at Frieze 2008. Read all about it on RSA’s Arts and Ecology website - and while you’re there, check out Steinbrener/Dempf’s “Trouble in Paradise”, below. Now that’s some visible trash!
I contribute occasional blog posts to an upcycling portal called re-imagining our waste. Here’s a little something from Aerin Dunford, another contributor. It’s a purse she made from can pull-tabs saved for her by family and friends. I’m posting it because I like Aerin’s emphasis on upcycling as personal creativity as opposed to mass-marketing. As in “need something? Want something? Try and make it before you try and buy it.” And by the way, have you fondled your stuff lately?
BIG WOW!
In the lineage of the Floating Neutrinos and Spiral Island, The Swimming Cities of Serenissima are set to hit the Venice Biennale this year in trashy style. Thanx to Keith Womack for the tip.
photos by Tod Seelie
Rick Haithcox made this image from a photo he took at the Gaston County dump (NC). Check out the deer - what’s that doing there? Did it have Chronic Wasting Disease? Anyway, the world’s in a sorry state if we’ve got dead deer in landfills. And don’t even get me started on people! Violence is the biggest disgrace, but the fact that there are homeless people anywhere in “the first world” is right up there with it as the shame of shames.
Hell, anywhere in the entire world, for that matter.
This marked me as a child . . .
I’m creating a video montage for next year’s traveling trash expo VISIBLE TRASH - ART INTO ACTION and need your clip. Film yourself (or have someone film you) holding or showing or standing by whatever you’d call TRASH, and say the word TRASH. That’s it, just that one word. Here’s mine, a 2-second clip. I need yours in as high a resolution as you can send. You’ll be mentioned in the credits and will get a copy of the DVD when it comes out. Pass it on!
Send clips to shivita@mac.com - by June 15th would be good.
Leila Darabi of Everyday Trash and Ruby Re-Usable of Olympia Dumpster Divers asked me to participate in a picture round-up called Decorative Dumpster Day. I was traveling in France and couldn’t find a decorative dumpster to save my life, but here’s a pic of some cool spiral trash bag holders in Paris.
Shameless self-promo: I designed the decorative dumpster day logo. See more at littleshiva.com.
Yay for the colorful people! Yanbuki Rolando Politi did a solo show in 1991 called Bye Bye Throwaway Society, and another in 1993 called Packaging Inferno. In April he’ll be doing The End of Waste World as part of the 13 Days of Waste market, to be held at the Secret Project Robot space in Williamsburg.
Oops: this just in: THE END OF WASTE has been postponed due to “logistical and scheduling reasons at the current venue.” Politi goes on to say that “it will be rescheduled as soon as a suitable venue for staging THE SUPERMARKET OF WASTE is located and secured. Ideally this would be an empty store of no more than 1000 square feet, a raw loft with cooking facilities or any location that can be transformed.” The search is on, space needed for 13 days only.
This was the original announcement:
“Dear Yanbuki friends and partners in trash adoration: the 13 days will be full of surprises and will inspire many yanbukis, especially the new ones to this wonderful world of trash, as these so-called crisis times have forced many people to take a good look at what they consume. The whole spirit of the exhibit will be on the positive and on the opportunities we now have to make a radical cultural switch and stop ignoring all those invisible people living off garbage around the world.” – Rolando Politi
Water first: this piece (WaterLily) is by Judith Selby Lang, who also took the gorgeous photo. It’s for Art at the Cheese Factory, in San Francisco.
As for food, here’s a good piece about the waste stream from a blog I follow, Cricket Bread. It’s not that I’m lazy and can’t be bothered writing original stories, but damn, there’s way too much information out there anyway, so follow the linx. Besides, I just spent a few months coming up with original content for my new magazine, Fingerpainting on Mars. Printed copies should be delivered today, and distribution starts Monday.
