trash
cube
media: collaborative trash weaving on discarded fencing
location: media, art, and design department, chiang mai university, chiang mai, thailand
year: 2023
This collaborative workshop was completed with Fine Arts students and Faculty from the Media, Arts, and Design Department at Chiang Mai University. Prior to the workshop, I met with the students and introduced the project and asked them to begin collecting plastic at their homes, work, and school. In lieu of building a loom for the workshop, we were able to source discarded fence pieces from the university, which were constructed into a shape of the cube. On the day of the workshop, over 90 participants came and wove their recycled materials around the fence cube. The cube remained in the building courtyard as an interactive installation with signage encouraging people to add their plastic to the cube, which stayed up for 3 months.