#trash – @nickkahler on Tumblr

Architecture, subsumed nearly completely into the ﬁnancial workings of late capitalism, has been forced into the meekness of near total economic and cultural devaluation. The landscape of unpaid competitions, cheap, trashy installations, online whoring, and powerlessness in the face of corporate spreadsheets is bleak. To make matters worse, as a discipline we have been among the most active accomplices in the construction of this vacuous landscape.

Mark Foster Gage, “Rot Munching Architects” from Perspecta 47: Money, 2014

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The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

Pope Francis, “On the Environment,” 2015

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The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone.

W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939", 1939

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There is an incredible amount of wasted effort in the profession. A fair amount of it is kind of generated through the procedure of competitions, which is really like a complete drain of intelligence. I don’t know any other profession that would, kind of, tolerate this… ‘You are important. We invite your thinking. But we also announce that there is a kind of 80 percent chance that we will throw away your thinking and make sure that it is completely wasted.’

Rem Koolhaas, From Urbanized, 2011 (via archpaper)

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Brought together, some of these sculptures describe a sort of wasteland, the ruins one might encounter near a checkpoint or in a home trashed by a hurricane. It is scavengers’ art, or - as the Arte Povera manifesto proclaimed forty years ago - it is the art for a new guerrilla warfare.

Massimiliano Gioni, “Ask the Dust” from Unmonumental, 2007

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Being truly anti-monumental also means not taking up unnecessary space. After all, this is a form of sculpture that is concerned with its place in the world with the amount of space it can take over in a civilization that is already overcrowded with goods, commodities, and waste. It is an art of recycling that suggests a universe on the verge of being completely overtaken by refuse.

Massimiliano Gioni, “Ask the Dust” from Unmonumental, 2007

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Eben Goff, Flood Cubes, Los Angeles, CA, c. 2013 (via watershedplus)

'Artist Eben Goff exposed the detritus filled waterways of Los Angeles by bolting metal frame onto the bed of the channelised Ballona Creek, in southwestern Los Angeles County. The constructions caught hold of floating matter that passed by for a week.'

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