TRASH project Utrecht

In conjunction with a group show at the Expodium Cultural Center, the curatorial team organized TRASH Maximalism in the city of Utrecht. They distributed the bags to residents to produce the installation and documented their use. March 27, 2010

Lainie Dalby X TRASH

When we gave Lainie Dalby of Visceral P.L.A.Y. Studios bags to use for a collaboration we did not know what to expect.  The result was trash bag houte couture filled with style and play. Recession Runway, NADA Emerging Artist Party, May 21, 2009 NY Art Book Fair, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, October 3, 2009     

Maximalism St Marks

Curated by Henriette Hosbond and Amanda Bloch from Roskilde University June 1st, 2009      

Shocking TRASH

Video collaboration set in Naples, Italy amidst the Naples Sanitation Crisis. In 2008 the landfills in Naples had filled up and the sanitation workers refused to pick up the trash. City squares, parks, beaches, and side streets became dumps. Filmmaker Tomaso Cardille and Naples native Alberto Polo approached Adrian Kondratowicz to collaborate on a short video […]

Maximalism NYC

The streets of New York are paved with…trash. About 10,000 tons of residential waste is collected daily by the NYSD. This ordinary function results in trash monuments, uncanny in scale.   Staring in Harlem then traveling throughout NYC, the local community was invited to produce each site-specific installation. TRASH project bags were distributed to persons responsible for sanitation and maintenance […]