"An Alphabet City Media book." "Artists and writers investigate the proposition that we are what we throw away"--Page 4 of cover. More fluff : Karilee Fuglem's photographs reveal complex worlds within dust bunnies -- Streets of trash : Toronto trash flaneur Lisa Rochon wanders the streets, shooting as she goes -- Uncle Fernando's Garbage Triptych : Priscila Uppal's poems portray her uncle, known in Brasilia as "Dr. Garbage"--Pliez : Susan Coolen collects paper airplanes from the streets of Montreal and other cities -- Sad chairs : Gay Hawkins wonders what happens when wasted things hang around, refusing to go away -- Trashed space : Nina-Marie Lister photographs urban waste spaces and makes the case for their reinvention -- In out -- The harbingers : in Nyla Matuk's fiction the year is 2029 and something is awry in China's zero-waste cities -- Recycling : Edward Burtynsky photographs recycling facilities in China and Ontario -- Message in a bottle : mass-scale trash is the outcome of our economic system, argues Heather Rogers -- Airspace : a photographic report by Pierre Belanger describes the ecologies and economies of landfilling in Michigan -- Media in the dump : Jennifer Gabrys reports on the residues from our digital devices -- Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove : Kristan Horton recreates - in tiny trash assemblages - frames from the Kubrick classic -- The ethical artifact : on trash : trash marks the limits of knowledge, argues Barry Allen -- Prototypes : Brian Jungen dissects and reassembles consumer products in order to simulate more ancient forms -- Utopia cleaners : gleaners help us find the utopian energies of what has been cast aside, says Tina Kendall -- Sound suits : Nick Cave's wearable artworks are built from found materials and make sounds when animated by the wearer -- Refuse/refused : in Priya Sarukkai Chabria's poems the discarded - a worm, an old woman, a shard of mirror - speak -- The missing daughters of Juarez : Rachael Cassells travels to Juarez to photograph the mothers of murdered Mexican girls : interviews and translations by Esteban Sheridan -- Plastikos : Susana Reisman photographs the vacuum-formed packaging used to display consumer goods -- Slough : a poem by Mani Rao explores this corporeal premise : "the new skins you grow are slough." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Contributors. a poem by Mani Rao explores this corporeal premise: "The new skins you grow are slough" -- More fluff / Karilee Fuglem's photographs reveal complex worlds within dust bunnies -- Streets of trash / Toronto trash flâneur Lisa Rochon wanders the streets, shooting as she goes -- Uncle Fernando's garbage triptych / Priscila Uppal's poems portray her uncle, known in Brasilia as "Dr. Garbage" -- Pliez / Susan Coolen collects paper airplaines from the streets of Montreal and other cities -- Sad chairs / Gay Hawkins wonders what happens when wasted things hang around, refusing to go away ; photos by Bill Keaggy -- Trashed space / Nina-Marie Lister photographs urban waste spaces and makes the case for their reinvention -- In/Out / Braden King, Gariné Torossian, and Tigran Xmalian sort junk in post-Soviet Armenia -- The harbingers / In Nyla Matuk's fiction the year is 2029 and something is awry in China's zero-waste cities ; drawings by Derek Sullivan -- Recycling / Edward Burtynsky photographs recycling facilities in China -- Message in a bottle / Mass-scale trash is the outcome of our economic system, argues Heather Rogers -- Airspace / a photographic report by Pierre Bélanger describes the ecologies and economies of landfilling in Michigan -- Media in the dump / Jennifer Ganrys reports on the residues from our digital devices -- Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove / Kristan Horton recreates- in tiny trash assemblages- frames from the Kubrick classic -- The ethical artifact : on trash / trash marks the limits of knowledge, argues Barry Allen -- Prototypes / Brian Jungen dissets and reassembles consuler products in order to simulate more ancient forms -- Utopia gleaners / gleaners help us find the utopian energies of what has been cast aside, says Tina Kendall -- Sound suits / Nick Cave's wearable artworks are built from found materials and make sounds when animated by the wearer -- Refuse/refused / in Priya Sarukkai Chabria's poem the discarded- a worm, and old woman, a shard of mirror- sepak -- The missing daughters of Juarez / rachael Cassells travels to Juarex to photograph the mothers of murdered Mexican girls ; interviews and transformations by Esteban Sheridan -- Plastikos / Susan Reisman photographs the vacuum-formed packaging used to display consuler goods -- Slough / a poem by Mani Rao explores this corporeal premise: "The new skins you grow are slough" -- Contributors.
Summary:
Looking at how we are defined by what we waste, this work surveys a terrain that ranges from micro (a typology of dust bunnies) to macro (studies of landfill design and the trashed space of urban brownfield sites). It investigates the logic of trash as it is applied to humans.
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