Endless Fields of Detritus Blanket Cássio Vasconcellos’s Aerial Composites
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Endless Fields of Detritus Blanket Cássio Vasconcellos’s Aerial Composites
The Liminality of Landfills
Landfills are physically liminal because they are spaces of transition, occupying a threshold between former and future uses. The land itself is in an unstable, transitory state, with decomposing waste causing the ground to settle and shift. This makes it unfit for most construction for decades, a physical manifestation
... See moreDuring the fifties, some American artists began to realize what the Dadaists in Europe had known about three decades before: that there might be a subject in this landscape of waste, this secret language of junk, because societies reveal themselves in what they throw away.
Robert Hughes • The Shock of the New
Clutter images Rob Horning 9.16.2022
1. In consumer society we feel useful when we participate in the circulation of goods.
2. Hoarding is a way to adapt to the quantified life; a way of upping your score.
3. Collecting dots creates a hoard where you cede intention to chance encounters with miscellaneous stuff.
4. In the digital realm as objects,... See more
1. In consumer society we feel useful when we participate in the circulation of goods.
2. Hoarding is a way to adapt to the quantified life; a way of upping your score.
3. Collecting dots creates a hoard where you cede intention to chance encounters with miscellaneous stuff.
4. In the digital realm as objects,... See more