participatory art | Max Liboiron

Trash Transformation

August 7, 2013 by Max Liboiron

Trash Transformation, 2013 Mixed media trash Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT Trash Transformation is a participatory art piece commissioned by the Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont for its High Trash exhibition. There are two rules of interaction for the piece: 1. You can touch, move, and rebuild any part of the model city. Take a photograph of what you’ve created and upload to trashtransformation.tumblr.com so we can watch the evolution of the model over time. 2. You can take […]

Categories: Art • Tags: broken window syndrome, participatory art, trash art

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

Founder/Worker

August 6, 2013 by Max Liboiron

Founder/Worker, 2011 Trash, mixed media Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY, USA Rule of interaction: When you build something for the city, you can either have your name recorded as a founder of the city, or you can be paid $5 as an anonymous worker. In Founder/Worker, visitors are invited to build part of a miniature New York City out of trash. Participants can them make a choice about what kind of credit they’d like for their […]

Categories: Art • Tags: alternative economy, community art, cultural capital, New York City, participatory art, participatory installation, trash art, volunteer art

New York Trash Exchange (NYTE)

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

New York Trash Exchange (NYTE), 2010 Trash, mixed media AC Institute, New York, NY Rule of exchange: You can take anything at any time if you make and leave something for the city. The New York Trash Exchange (NYTE) is meant to mimic the New York Stock Exchange, but rather than trading money and debt, the Trash Exchange exchanges landmarks made of trash. Gallery visitors were invited to take any piece of the art during the exhibit as long as […]

Categories: Art • Tags: art as urban planning, exchange art, landmark, participatory art, participatory installation, urban planning art

Elocation

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

Elocation, 2010 Mixed media trash and glue NURTURE art, Brooklyn, NY Rule of interaction: You can take anything that isn’t glued down, and you can glue anything down. Elocation was a trash-based social economy where anyone could take anything that wasn’t glued down, and they could glue anything down. The map depicts an area of East Brooklyn, New York, that suffers from gentrification. Elocation was meant to quantify the impulse to take things versus the impulse to keep things in […]

Categories: Art • Tags: art as urban planning, gentrification art, participatory art, trash, trash art, urban planning art

Eco-System

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

Eco-system, 2005-present. Mixed media, cubes 3 x 2.5″ Rules of Exchange: You can buy any diorama for $20. Once you buy a diorama, you can either take it with you, in which case you take a Polaroid of it to mark its departure (and the money goes to the artist), or you can leave it behind in a preserved area, where no one else can take it (and the money goes to local preservation efforts). Eco-system began as a collection […]

Categories: Art • Tags: art economy, participatory art, praxis, preservation art, record keeping, tally chart