One-day Exhibition of Installations for A Trash
What is "A Trash Day"?
A Trash Day is an one-day exhibition and workshop by Kouji Nagamine and Maki Ueda which took place in Tokyo, Japan, in October 1999.
The dioxine, indusutrial disposal, nuclear disposal, etc... we know that these subject nowadays are very important issues. We hear about it from the news on the media. But they seem as if the matter does not have anything to do with our daily life.
But if we think about our daily disposal, it is directly connected to this issues...like a plastic or paper coffee cup, and the energy used in the factory which made this cup, and the gas for a truck to transport this cup, etc... They are all trash.
Of course anybody knows it and nobody needs to explain you such a thing. But do you think about it when you dispose something? Is anybody aware of what she/he create? Is it possible to be aware of it? Why is the circuit of awareness is disconnected between the daily disposal and what it is happnening in the envirionment?
A Trash Day will try to create this "circuit of awareness" with artworks and workshop. A Trash Day will offer you a different point of view for the trash. Maybe you will not see a trash as a trash. Maybe you will find something as a trash which you did not think as a trash.
A Trash Day
Kouji Nagamine * Maki Ueda
Date: October 2nd, 1999
Place: Environment Partnership Plaza, United Nation, Aoyama Tokyo, Japan
Organized by:
EARTHVISION International Environmental Film Festival Japan
Special Thanks to:
SONY TEKTRONIX/OLYMPUS/Environment Partnarship Plaza, United Nation
review: morning issue of Tokyo Newspaper October 10, 1999
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