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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

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

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