Cleaning up the oceans
One of the main risks for sea life is trash floating in the ocean, which with time piles up in huge garbage patches. System 002 suggests how to clean up the oceans from plastic pollution and to decrease the sizes Read More …
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Plastic Waste in Contemporary Aesthetic Practice by Urszula Staszkop
Weekly Excerpts #3: 7/1/2019
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Plastic Free July
Join the challenge and ‘Choose To Refuse’ single-use plastic during July! The Australian movement Plastic Free July encourages people to be more aware of their plastic use, such that we can create a cleaner world for generations to come. “Imagine Read More …
ENTANGLED
THEME – ENTANGLED Nature Performance Art / 2018 / Ghana The artist performed by assuming what it will be like to the sea mammals or creatures that get entangled by plastics and its debris. To the artist man ought to Read More …
Sandcastles – by Sophia Siossios
Sandcastles is an ongoing art project that aims to highlight the current reality with waste on our beaches and in our seas. It’s part art and part awareness. This project started at the end of the summer in 2017 when artist Sophia Siossios Read More …
Vanishing Oceans Project – by Linda Byrne and Maggie Dubris
In the 21st century, it’s no longer Jonah in the belly of the whale, but bottle caps, popped balloons, and shards of plastic. Ninety-five percent of the ocean has never been seen by human eyes. We’re destroying a mystery that Read More …
The Noblest Pain – by Ho Man Law
‘Nostalgia is the noblest pain’ -Johann Gottfried von Herder ‘Sea project’ is inspired by a wave of nostalgia for my homeland- Hong Kong since I moved to Berlin, Germany two years ago. Given the geographical location of Hong Kong, she Read More …
Plasticos Multicolorus – by Denise Frechet
Five years ago, I became aware of the existence of the 7th continent or great Pacific garbage patch. It is a swirling soup of plastic micro particules leading to the intoxication of marine fauna. The impact of plastic pollution is Read More …
The problem with the plastic
Mechanical capacity and stability are the main features of plastic products. Exactly this characteristic makes plastic to a problem when it becomes waste. As a consequence, plastic litter needs hundreds to thousands years to disintegrate. Already in 2014, 270.000 tons Read More …
SUBMERGE: a meditative experience into water – by Alex Côté
Pure or Plastic? Did the water sources on Earth change because of our plastic weapons? Are we already aimless droids, drowning in an exploitative lifestyle plaguing our own future? Can we free ourselves carelessly from our plastic armours and swim Read More …
Waves – by Nevena Vuksanovic
We are daily witnesses of consumer mania and the greedy accumulation of unnecessary things in order to satisfy the trivial human needs presented to us as an existential necessity by the media. Products are produced for short term usage, of poor quality, all Read More …
Plastic Bottle Glacier – by Ron Wild
Buying bottled water results in a pile of plastic bottle trash that contaminates our environment for millennia. ‘Plastic Bottle Glacier’ by Ron Wild is a proposed outdoor ice sculpture installation that will shrink dramatically during the exhibition to highlight the earth’s Read More …
Children’s Book: “The Ocean Adventures of Pinni, Tursi, and Mydas: Plastic Danger”
I like to share this children’s book I illustrated and co-produced a few years ago, that talks about the dangers of various types of plastic in the ocean. We developed it to use in elementary schools for children between the Read More …
White Death – by Antoaneta Tica
Since the industrial revolution of the 19th century, nature has become more and more weak against the artificials elements created by man. Among these inventions, plastic is one of the materials whose disintegration process is very long, with serious effects Read More …
0ceanFlowr – by Anneli Goeller
Water as a vessel. Water as a life source. Water as our composition. Our bodies as water and bodies of water. This interactive web video reflects on water as a precious commodity. A plastic, disposable water bottle is a vessel. Read More …
Dystopia of a Plastic Thermal Bath – by Julia Vegh
Can we invite you to a wonderful plastic thermal bathing? We are going to fill a whole thermal bath pool with empty plastic bottles for you to give the opportunity for to take bath in it and enjoy. The final Read More …
An Undesirable Archive – by Steve McPherson
“…. Not only do the works highlight the problem of the amount of debris in the sea…. the mysterious, the unusual, the forgotten and lost. But these wreckage pieces, these objects symbolise the history of the world up to this Read More …
“See!” – Stop Feeding The Monster! – by Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch
What if every time you washed your clothes, put on cosmetics, or drank a bottle of water you were unknowingly feeding a destructive sea monster that would grow to enormous proportions and ruin the planet? “See!” Is an art piece/project Read More …
Absent Histories – by Steve McPherson
“…. Not only do the works highlight the problem of the amount of debris in the sea…. the mysterious, the unusual, the forgotten and lost. But these wreckage pieces, these objects symbolise the history of the world up to this Read More …
A Poem Against Plastic Waste … Sinking In This Sea Is (NOT) Sweet To Me – by Pablo Dilet
We are water. There is no life without this simple particle. Salty or pure, water is life and, as humans, we have to protect its purity from one of the biggest danger: the plastic waste. Today, water is at big Read More …
PLASTIC, an installation and a turtle against plastic waste
“The sea tells us lots of stories. This is the one of the plastic which floats over or dissolves inside it. A story of death and pollution that this time we want to cage. Actors are also the over one Read More …