Check out:
Joseph Beuys's Tate modern vitrine called "Sweeping Up" made from trash swept up from Berlin's Alexander Platz: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/beuys/room9.shtm
Edward Burtynsky's "manufactured landscapes" and "urban mines":
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
Felipe Ehrenberg's 1970 film about trash in London in the 1970s "La Poubelle":
http://www.tate.org.uk/research/researchservices/archive/audiofilmhighlights/player_ehrenberg.shtm
Johan Sundgren's "Pepenadores" series of photographs of the scavangers living in a dump outside of Mexico City:http://www.johansundgren.se/photo_r_mex_en.htm
Also, an exhibition on recycled stuff from Africa, the Americas and Asia curated by the Museum of International Folk Art called Recycled, Reseen:http://www.internationalfolkart.org/exhibitions/past/recycledreseen/rrindex.html
Comments (1)
Should we think about a part of our exhibition that includes a monitor cycling these and other trash-art websites? I think the DSNY audience doesn't know much about these kinds of "high-culture" uses of the stuff that is at the center of their work. I think it would bemuse them to see it, and might make them see that not everyone reacts to garbage as only a negative.
Posted by Robin Nagle | October 11, 2007 7:05 PM
Posted on October 11, 2007 19:05