Amy and Alina came up with this idea to collect junk from everybody's home and turn this crap into beautiful things. Everyone was invited to participate. I was impressed with the results and even got to take some treasures home with me! Isn't the name of the exhibition perfect?Here's the description they wrote:
Holy Crap, a participatory happening by Alina Parigger (AT) and Amy Wu (AUS), will exhibit in ROT(T)TERDAM various sacred altars of discarded material. The significance of waste, based on the vision of Baudrillard, is examined. In primitive societies wasting was connected to festive rituals and had a symbolic social function which in turn validated our sense of existence making us feel alive. In contrast, today's modern societies seem to throw away as an obligatory act devoid of crucial symbolic and collective significance. Parigger and Wu believe that the act of throwing away ‘waste’ may be interchangeable with throwing away values. Holy Crap, is an attempt to recover the discarded values of symbolic exchange, human relations and collective significance by providing a sacred public space made of discarded material.
Thus, the creation of sacred 'waste-altars' together with the public, will serve as a survey of our collective values.
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