Wend Magazine – Greenery»Blog Archive » Trashy Art: Dumpsters Go Creative.
File under social commentary/art project. After you’ve spent the day emptying the container of re-usable goods, turn the hunk-a-junk into a pool or halfpipe.
Also, check out this ethnography of dumpster diving essay this blogger wrote for an academic class.
A good dumpster run is one that exhilirates, that empowers, that feeds and that connects the divers and the broader community that they are a part of. Each run is unique, and can lead to stories that are told again and again. A good dumpster run brings in food for several, and an ideal run brings in a diversity of goods, from new shoes to tupperware. An otherwise sober, straightedge freegan might drink a beer from a dumpstered 11 pack of Smirnoff. A good dumpster run both feeds a hungry activist and expresses through repeated action some of the same values and beliefs which motivate her to protest a coal company’s use of strip mining for coal. A dumpster run may be the first direct action a new activist takes, but it connects him with a tradition, and with a shared experience, that initiates that individual into a community.
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