Wednesday, April 20. 2011
Inorganic Rubbish's Second Life - Auckland
Every year Auckland and other cities round the country have a rubbish collection aptly named Inorganic Rubbish. This refers to the end of the road and life to the items and objects that can not be salvaged, reused or recycled and made into something else.
Waking to a street filled with rubbish it turned out I was the last to be informed of this collection (brochures from the council were supposedly in the mail to inform residents). Old carpets, televisions, chairs with three legs is a common sight and my eyes are in wonder of what could be around the next block. Seeing peoples' unwanted items give an insight on how people live behind their door's and fences of their homes on which I will never enter.
It is an opportunity for people to clean out the attic, cobwebs and unwanted goods they cant be bothered taking to the refuse tip. Though equally it is a time for others to find goods that may have a use to them and their homes. The commonly known quote " One man's garbage is another man's treasure" remains true here and often minivans and pickup trucks trawl through the streets looking for goods to put in their own homes.
My wonder is in what the potential of something can become. Reinventing an object for what it was never proposed to be used for. Late night outings involved setting out and reorganising these objects in something greater and bigger than what they had become; unwanted, "thrown out" and useless. If not only for a night maybe longer they were transformed into new shapes and dimensions united to be re-examined.
What might the past owners of these disused object's ponder when collecting the early morning paper or walking out the front door to work. A curious smile?
Jonathan Brooking and Victoria Szerdi 2011
It is an opportunity for people to clean out the attic, cobwebs and unwanted goods they cant be bothered taking to the refuse tip. Though equally it is a time for others to find goods that may have a use to them and their homes. The commonly known quote " One man's garbage is another man's treasure" remains true here and often minivans and pickup trucks trawl through the streets looking for goods to put in their own homes.
My wonder is in what the potential of something can become. Reinventing an object for what it was never proposed to be used for. Late night outings involved setting out and reorganising these objects in something greater and bigger than what they had become; unwanted, "thrown out" and useless. If not only for a night maybe longer they were transformed into new shapes and dimensions united to be re-examined.
What might the past owners of these disused object's ponder when collecting the early morning paper or walking out the front door to work. A curious smile?
Jonathan Brooking and Victoria Szerdi 2011
My partner has been doing this type of assemblage and intervention art for sometime. He has hours and hours of footage of his interventions with inorganic piles which also incorporate loose art historic references; Jean Baudrillard's System of Objects for example. He questions the unnoticed and the ordinary and shifts the objects into the infra-ordinary, the space in between ordinary and extra ordinary! I like your works!