waste not art

“short hi.stories” series 1995 – ongoing unrealized/unrealizable project intended for installation at the Serpentine Gallery, London (or any other museum that wishes to exhibit the project) by Plamen Yordanov

description

waste not art from the “short hi.stories” series is an installation of shredded documents, forms and other financial materials, collected by a waste paper company, located in Chicago. This company operates in the US Midwest region and the intended for showing in the installation materials have been collected from the region in the last few years – the time of the most recent financial crash in the USA history. The shredded paper strips content millions of personal “histories” mixed together and reduced (visually) to simple geometric forms – cubes. As un addition, the Federal law, for security reasons, prohibits moving the “material” even being shredded, out the company’s premises, which make the project unrealizable… unless in the name of art sake the law is changed.

Plamen Yordanov Chicago www.plamenarts.com