Title & Author:

Waste : a reader about the global routes of rubbish / [Amanda Boetzkes and ten others].

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Dortmund : Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U ; Leipzig : Spector Books, 2026.

Description:

159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimile ; 19 cm

Notes:
On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, March 27, 2026 - July 26, 2026.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Regina Selter -- Ways of waste : on the global routes of rubbish / Christina Danick & Michael Griff -- What is waste? / Roman Köster -- Transforming the circuits of electronic waste / Jennifer Gabrys -- Wasteways / Amanda Boetzkes -- Manufactured landscapes : on wastes as information / Susi Gutsche -- The wonders of waste : the value of Afrofuturism's trash aesthetics / Nedine Moonsamy -- Bitterfield, or the laws of waste / Oliver Schlaudt -- Ungovernable waste : from colonial temporalities of violence to repair / Evelyn Wan -- Art, spectacle, and the stage of extraction : Greenpeace and the aesthetics of resistance / Annabel Keenan -- Where does waste begin? Where does it end? A conversation with the "critical friends" / Christina Danick, Peter Emorinken-Donatus, Michael Griff, Roman Köster, Eva Rost.

Summary:

"What does waste have to tell us about our world? In what ways are the global economy and the production and recycling of waste connected? Who profits from waste, and who is harmed by it? And what utopian ideas can waste engender? Waste travels around the world. In industrialized countries, it is disposed of, collected, and carted away, out of sight--and, generally speaking, out of mind too. But this is just the beginning of its journey: Waste is traded and shipped elsewhere to be dumped in places where the local people are obliged to deal with it. Although the Global North produces vast quantities of household and industrial waste, the bulk of it ends up in the Global South, where it has far-reaching consequences. Since the 1960s, there has been an increasing tendency for artists to engage critically with what society regards as waste. Developed on the basis of Waste: An Exhibition About the Global Routes of Rubbish, this reader brings together interdisciplinary essays by scholars and artists who track the global routes that rubbish follows." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

9783959059619 English edition paperback
3959059612

Subject:

Refuse as art material Exhibitions.
Trash art Exhibitions.
Environmental degradation in art.
Human ecology in art Social aspects.
Déchets (Matériau d'artistes) Expositions.
Trash art Expositions.
Environnement Dégradation, dans l'art.
Écologie humaine dans l'art Aspect social.
Refuse as art material
Trash art

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Boetzkes, Amanda, contributor.
Museum am Ostwall (Dortmund, Germany), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 327957
Call No.: 327957
Copy: 1
Status: Available