Assemblage II
These artists created new works from other artists' leftovers. How wonderfully responsible.
Overview
Recycling. Of all the modern waste handling phenomena, it's a good 'un. The collaboration behind the Assemblage project set their artists a recycling-type challenge, where they collected and documented the discarded items and refuse from artists participating in last year's Underbelly Arts Festival. The second instalment of the project, Assemblage II, is an exhibition of 12 creatives' work, made in response to the unique set of objects they were each given, selected from the pile of other artists' leftovers.
The participants are a heterogenous bunch, kind of like the materials they're working with. They come variously from art, design, architecture and writing backgrounds and include luridly inclined sculpturist Rosie Deacon and poet/artist/theorist Astrid Lorange. Provided with an "absurd set of rules" and the free reign to extend, expand, unpack and negotiate the odd materials given across physical and digital realms, you can bet they've come up with some interesting stuff. Seems recycling isn't just a mark of responsible adulthood; it can also make for some nifty and creative food for thought.
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