PechaKucha x Chol Theatre at The Media Centre, Huddersfield, 29/11/12
Slides 6-10
Remains: Hans Schabus – Remains of the Day (2011)
Remains of the Day at Collective Gallery in Edinburgh consisted of rubbish accumulated by the artist and his family during one calendar year – installed, cleaned, catergorised and displayed in the white cube of the gallery.
Litter: Raumlabor – House of Contamination (2010)
House of Contamination was an experimental museum hosting Artissima’s 2010 curatorial programme “Poetry in the Form of a Rose.” The walls were made out of crushed plastic bottles, compressed bales of advertising and packaging paper, leftover fabrics from the manufacturing process and discarded wood from doors and panels.
Garbage: Ilya Kabakov – The Garbage Man (The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away) (1983-95)
Ilya Kabakov’s The Garbage Man resembles a state-owned communal apartment from the former Soviet Union. The carefully catalogued and archived contents are a mix of things the artist took with him from the old communist state and things he has found since he moved to the West.
Rejects: Sarah Nicole Phillips – Curbside Object Status Tags (2010)
The practice of leaving useful but no-longer-wanted objects out on the curb for others to find is widespread in New York, but there are inefficiencies in this informal sidewalk gift economy. The Curbside Object Status Tags communicates to passers-by important information about the object’s condition and functionality.
Mongo: Justin Gignac – NYC Garbage (2001-present)
Justin Gignac picks up New York City street trash, in line with a long tradition of mongo collection. He arranges and packages his findings in plastic cubes which he signs, numbers and dates, and sells for $50 each.
