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Premise & Objectives

TRASH & JUNK CULTURE was first installed as a one-off ‘Media Night’ at Artspace in Sydney 1988. It was then installed for a 3 week exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne in 1989. The installations were identical, involving 6 small multi-media installations involving slide projections, transparency blow-ups, light-boxes, overhead projections, multiple-monitor set-ups and graphics. A soundscape was also incorporated into the installation design.

The purpose of the TRASH & JUNK CULTURE project was to create an overview of the streams, channels, flows and charters of cultural production and generated artifacts which are consequently circumscribed as being either ‘trash’ or 'junk'. Rather than altempting to defend or promote the high-versus-low sidings which make cultural debates imperative, conditional, moral or ideological, the presentations for the TRASH & JUNK CULTURE project are focused on how to:

• expose the viewer to a range of artifacts normally outside his/her experience

• highlight the estranged and alienated position from which so-called Multural analysis' usually proceeds

• provide historical and mythological groundings for the formation of said streams, channels, flows and charters

• propose a model for how we could redefine and reclassify outmoded notions of 'consumerism', ‘consumption' and ‘the consumer'

 

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