(Un)Common Materials

Using common, underutilized, and discarded materials, these artists seek to reimagine or reinform a public relationship to the material.

https://art21.org/theme/uncommon-materials/

6 Artists on The Poetry of Discarded Materials | Louisiana Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSwCP4xE5PI

Watch our full-length interviews with all the artists here:

Phyllida Barlow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e86iiVjPDsY

Elliott Hundley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhxDt5X-Nio

Morten Søkilde: https://youtu.be/6-HF9VdX9gA

Nick Cave: https://youtu.be/1dzyik8Ak_w

Piet Hein Eek: https://youtu.be/68eHdMavGq0

Tara Donovan: https://youtu.be/lSCSnKqBNHg

TRASH TO TREASURE. Best Recycled Art Made from Trash!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IZmGlLG7ak

Assemblage Art

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/121175046203284919/

Plastic Waste Circus

https://particle.scitech.org.au/earth/exploring-plastic-waste-with-circus-fringe-world-2019-particle/

South African Robots

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/01/29/traditional-sa-wire-sculptures-are-transforming- into-robots_a_23346599/

http://africanrobots.net

Simone Gertz’s Nonsensical Robots

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ

Toy Take Apart at the Exploratorium

https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/projects/toy-take-apart

Gambiologia

Gambiologia Home

https://mymodernmet.com/xu-bing-phoenix/

Xu Bing’s aptly titled Phoenix made from the remnants of old construction sites in China.

Junk Culture

Junkculture embodies the belief that the waste products of our consumer culture can be transformed into art that incorporates the history of their human use.

http://www.junk-culture.com/

(Un)Common Materials

https://art21.org/theme/uncommon-materials/

6 Artists on The Poetry of Discarded Materials | Louisiana Channel

TRASH TO TREASURE. Best Recycled Art Made from Trash!

Brian Jungen

Dina Amin

Tim Hobbleman