• wildcardology@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There was another story like this. The exhibit depicts an after party scene with champagne bottles and other party “trash” everywhere. It was placed in a room. The custodians thought there was a party earlier and promptly cleaned the room.

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    3 months ago

    Art exists solely as it is interpreted by the observer.

    In this case, the observer interrupted the art as trash.

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      3 months ago

      I believe this kind of art should embrace the impermanence. The concept is more valuable than the object.

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    3 months ago

    To be fair, I feel like that’s kind of what the artist was hoping for. Would you be reading about his piece if some Philistine with no concept of what constitutes art hadn’t thrown it away?

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    3 months ago

    This is terrible.

    Aluminium cans should have gone in the recycling! ♻️

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        3 months ago

        Aluminum is actually one of the most recyclable things we have. To the point where it’s better, environmentally, to have single use aluminum cups that get recycled every time.

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          3 months ago

          Except aluminium cans nowadays have a plastic lining that make recycling them harder.

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          3 months ago

          And in contrast, plastic sucks 100% for recycling. Remelting it for recycling results in polymer degradation. Going so far as to be basically useless for some cases. We tried a bunch of high quality recycled materials - for instance ground up and repelletized lego bricks. Bumpers from cars. All abs, all possible to be broken by hand when extruded. New pellets never had that and could basically withstand everything we threw at them. What people usually do is mix like 5% of recycled into the new stuff.

          The cost of plastic is so cheap, that I could have ordered a metric tonne, use up 50kgs out of that, throw the remaining 950kg out and still turn a healthy profit. It always surprised me why someone would make something out of shitty plastic, when the good stuff is barely more expensive. It also surprises me why people bother with recycling it for the exact same reason. The drawbacks are huge for maybe 5 - 10% difference in cost.

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            3 months ago

            Plastic is basically free. It’s a waste product from refining oil. That’s why it’s so cheap. Instead of telling the petroleum industry they needed to properly deal with their hazardous waste we let them sell it. It would be like a coal mine finding a use for the chemical soup that remains after processing, and then just yeeting it everywhere.

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        3 months ago

        i love museums and art centers.

        the great thing about art is everyone is free to define it how they want, and no one is wrong.

        “art” to you, “garbage” to me