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Steady-State

August 6, 2013 by Max Liboiron

Steady-State: Development Without Growth, 2011 Mixed media, trash New Museum, Festival of Ideas for the New City & Sneak Peak, Freshkills Landfill Rule of interaction: You can touch, change, build and destroy anything, but nothing can leave or come into the “city.” Steady-State illustrates a steady-state economy as visitors shape a miniature model city made of New York City’s waste. Within the piece, the overall number of buildings, green spaces, and other urban infrastructures stayed the same, but people rearranged, […]

Categories: Art • Tags: alternative economies, art, economic art, participatory art, praxis, steady-state economy, urban planning art

The Dawson City Trash Project

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

The Dawson City Trash Project, 2008 Mixed media, trash ODD Gallery, KIAC, Dawson City, YK The Dawson City Trash Project is a miniature diorama of the current and historical garbage sites in Dawson City, Yukon. All of the raw materials used to create the miniatures are scavenged from these dump sites, and because visitors to the gallery had technically provided the materials for the exhibit, every piece of the installation was free to take away. The project enacts a landfill […]

Categories: Art • Tags: alternative economies, alternative economy, economic art, installation, participatory economy, participatory installation, particopatory art, praxis, trash art

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