Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Trash

What makes trash a spectacle?

5 comments:

  1. Grouping, repetition, layers etc...
    Adding depth to something disposable

    -Soo & Jacob

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  2. Also, taking something otherwise discarded and breathing new life into it by reaestheticising the object. I think it challenges how we view the disposable and makes us accountable for what we produce and consume. I wonder what makes a spectacle, or at least what enables spectacle in a pictoral culture?

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  3. Trash becomes spectacle when it is taken out of the bins, corners, and fills that we use to ignore it and placed in a context which refuses to be ignored. For example the gallery space or public space.

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  4. To take an object out of its original state and appropriate it as an art object (be it trash, photographs, newspapers, dog collars, tennis shows, air conditioners, ect.) is to detach the object from previous definition (here, "trash"). By placing it on an aesthetic pedestal (such as a gallery), to be viewed as an art object entirely redefines the object (in this case "spectacle").

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  5. The abundance of trash is a spectacle. The placement of trash in a gallery changes its context emphasizing the fact that it is a spectacle.

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