Thursday, January 31, 2008

garbage pin project...






An Ana Cardim project.

Here you can read and see more about the garbage Pin project and see other jewellerys from Ana Cardim…
http://www.anacardim.com/

More of… at:
http://belula-vanessa.blogspot.com/2008/01/ana-cardim.html
http://www.alternatives.it/




Garbage Pin

“Garbage Pin is born of a definitely urban concept, the appropriation and
reinterpretation of a daily use object: the garbage bin.
Being one of the most common typologies of urban equipment in the
cosmopolitan network, the garbage bag belongs without any doubt to the
collective imagery, present in every urbanite life’s day as a reflection of a
culture involved with the accelerated and growing consumism, as is ours.
It is a call to reflect on the current social paradigm that confronts notions such
as “waste” and “valuable”, both relative and subjective concepts. It is a call as
well for the innumerable problems that derive from a society of consumers;
those of environmental and ecologic sort that lead us today to a future break
with the current ecosystem.
This is a project that originates several pieces. It isn’t a unique piece but
certainly a production series that prompts work in progress, where the idea of
open work is also defended. This way, the pieces only acquire sense when
interpreted by the users. The potential users of Garbage Pin are those who
inhabit the big cities.
As a piece of jewelry, it is presented as a pin of reduced dimensions (4,5 x 2 x
3 cm): a metallic silver structure that holds a tiny, transparent plastic bag (the
garbage bag). This bag, once full, can be removed, closed with a wire and
kept as a outcome of the experience.
The piece is sold as a kit that includes spare plastic bags and wires.
The choice of materials used (silver and plastic bags), provokes the
confrontation of concepts such as value and waste. Silver as a noble metal is
opposed to plastic bags, used and discarded in our society in frightening
amounts.

How to acquire Garbage Pin

Garbage Pin is currently sold in galleries or through the link:
http://anacardim.myshopify.com (shipping include)
It can exceptionally be given as a present. Each person that acquires
Garbage Pin is informed of the project and becomes part of it by receiving a
proposal.

The proposal
The proposal consists in asking the carrier to make use of the piece in a
conscious manner during 5 consecutive days. Through this period of time,
s/he will experiment with it and choose the contents to put on the plastic bags
according to her/his perspective and reflections originated by this project.
After that time, s/he would have gathered 5 garbage bags with their respective
contents. Each bag has to be sealed with a wire and kept. It is asked not to
throw the garbage bags generated in this experience to the garbage bag,
since they will be later on used to build an installation. For each of these bags,
a picture is asked for (jpg or psd –300 dpi definition) with a neutral background
(black or white)*. We also ask for a picture of the person (half body) using the
garbage pin (jpg or psd –300 dpi definition) with a neutral background (black
or white)*
Each person is requested to write a small text (max. 15th lines, body 12) to
present the reflections and sensations experimented throughout the use of this
piece, together with a description and explanation of the choice of contents
that have been placed inside of each bag.

Project exhibitions scheduled from November 2008: Lisbon, Barcelona,
Rome, Porto, Munich.
Handout deadline for graphic material: 20th May 2008
Posting deadline for pin and garbage bags: 25th September 2008 (posting
expenses held by the participants)
Pins and garbage bags will be returned to the participants after the exhibitions
(posting expenses held by the project organizer).”
I think this is a really interesting project and I look forward to see the final!
Good luck with the project, the work to collect and build an exhibition in the end…
I hope it wills ending up in some catalogue or other publication, so I can take part and se what happened.

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