http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14164798 Approaches to waste. 2001-2011 Talk at the seminar “From Landscapes of Extraction to Creative Industries of Organic Matter and Waste” at Graduate School of Design Harvard, Cambridge MA, USA on February 14th 2011.
How much waste do we buy? Analyzing and visualizing how much waste we buy everyday. Co-organized with Dietmar Offenhuber in the Guggenheim Lab at Berlin. Starting with the Waste Packaging Index.
Using automobile waste and scrap cars as raw material, Basurama conducted an itinerant installation, called Miami Trash Machine (MTM). The MTM is at the same time an extrage object and an interactive sound system. Public was the protagonist in a ludic public event, were everyone was invited to participate. A set of lights, sound sources and sensors […]
Title: Chainwork Duration: Infinite loop. Author: Basurama in collaboration with Johan Stevenson. Technique: Two DVD players into loop. Year: 2008 The videoinstalation has been in: Permanent Exhibition. BTEK Interpretation Center of the technology in the Bizkaia Technology Park in Zamudio. Arenas Movedizas. Ancient kitchens Labour University. Gijón. September 9 – October 24, 2010. Rehogar 2013. […]
Proyecto de visualización de deseos de una comunidad de vecinos sobre el espacio público.
Garbage is rapidly becoming one of the main topics in urban society. Not only are municipalities keenly aware of the high environmental cost of waste, but residents are more-and-more conscious of the importance of recycling. Even so, most urban dwellers are still blind to what actually happens to their trash once it is tossed into […]
In September 2011 Basurama organized a workshop at the BMW Guggenheim in New York. The aim of the project was to give the participants an idea about waste. We wanted them to understand waste as a resource of knowledge, that can teach us about economy, anthropology, sociology, as well as to be a resource for creativity. […]
We took part in R.I.P. – Recycling Pervasive Media, a workshop organised by Katherine Moriwaki, Jonah Brucker Cohen, Susan Kennard y Mark Resch at Banff Centre in Canada. R.I.P. – Recycling Pervasive Media, Intervening in Planned Obsolescence, and Practicing Technological Sustainability tackled the issues of recycling, art making, and sustainability practices. Artists, researchers, practitioners, academics, […]
You are what you throw. Installation at the International Benicassim Festival (FIB). From July 17th to 24th, 2007.
The installation consisted in a 10 m x 5 m scaffolding structure filled in with all the waste generated by the people at the festival. The objective was to show who we are and how we behave through all we consume and the trash we generated. The result was something like a visual waste stratum disposal, a critical and aesthetic reflexion of the consumption model we live in.
El Cairo, Egypt. May 2011
Research project that explores and reinterpret the idea of residual spaces in El Cairo.