The Museum of The Unworthy

A creative engagement with Piyungan Landfill, Yogyakarta

Nindityo Adipurnomo – Ferial Afiff – M. Lugas Syllabus – Anang Saptoto – Cassandra Schultz – Ned Branchi – Hedi Hariyanto – Tony Maryana – Andita Purnama

Start Time: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 7:30pm
End Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:00pm
Location: Cemeti Art House
Street: Jl. D.I Panjaitan 41
City/Town: Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Phone: 62274371015
Email: cemetiah@indosat.net.id

“In an unproblematic sense garbage is leftover matter, it is what remains when the good, fruitful, valuable, nourishing and useful has been taken. Appropriation is the mother of garbage.In another guise this is seen as human propensity for differentiation (a complicated way of saying we choose or accept something whilst rejecting something else) that inaugurates a lifetime of cutting-off, disconnection and removal. Nevertheless, these activities become the principal means of marking of the valuable and the worthy, and this sense differentiation is what establishes culture.” (Scanlan, John On Garbage ReaktionBooks, London, 2005 pg 13)

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