Re-creation of a re-creation: First Public Demonstration of Ad-Infinitum Art July 5, 2007
For the Melbourne Design Festival PopUps Program of 2007
July 05 – 22, 2007
Launched: July 14, 07
Designer: Wendy Cooper
In 2004, Gustav Metzger recreated his 1960 installation (First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art) for the Tate Modern – a scene of banal decay, including a table, a corroding painting and a plastic bag full of waste material. A cleaner for the gallery mistook the latter piece for a genuine bag of rubbish and promptly removed it from the installation, dumping it into a compactor.
In 2007, inspired by the question – when is bag of rubbish not a bag of rubbish? - Milly Sleeping and Melbourne-based designer Wendy Cooper collaborated to create a series of unconventional bags from spare and waste materials.
Thank you to Maureen Devlin, Kate Hannaford (Moth) and Amelia Phillips from the National Design Centre
