Trash Art and the Materiality Politics of Urban Landscapes
Trash art challenges traditional boundaries of art and introduces new layers of meaning to urban landscapes by transforming discarded materials into components of visual and cultural expression.The sig-nification of trash art is constrained by the materials it employs.Soft waste explores the possibilities of ar-tistic materials;the paradox of hard waste's availability and disposability imbues artworks with new ex-pressions of consumerism,industrialization and urbanization;and architectural ruins embed the transient nature of all buildings into their very core through artistic means.When trash art emerges within urban landscapes,it generates a new set of paradoxical characteristics:on one hand,it acts as a rupture in the per-ceived wholeness of the city,while on the other hand,it becomes a consumable spectacle.Thus,trash art landscapes exhibit a complex"materiality politics".On one hand,trash art is tied to the spatial rationality of modern society—a sanitary political notion that excludes disorder,clutter,and filth—while on the other hand,trash art resists and displaces this spatial rationality.In this context,modern society,by organizing objects,suppresses vibrant life experiences,yet at the same time cultivates the latent resistance inherent in trash landscapes.
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