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Plastic Free Life by Karola Luettringhaus

12/11/2017

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I am working on a new installation that highlights the impact we each have on the world and on non-human life. We cause so much pain.

Check out Chris Jordan's TED talks and his artwork.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjK0cvbm20M
Then cry. Then change what you do. Here are some tips:
https://myplasticfreelife.com/plasticfreeguide/

The installation features 5,000 recycled clear plastic water bottles from UNCW campus, selectively collected over the course of 3 months. Every bottle represents a bottle I have bought. According to 'ban the bottle' https://www.banthebottle.net/bottled-water-facts/ the average US American uses 165 plastic bottles per year. That number seems low to me, but what it means is that by the time we are 35, we have used as many bottles as there are in my installation. I personally, have used almost twice that many, it took me 20 years. And my installation only looks at plastic water bottles, not the plastic wrappers our food comes in, plastic that our clothes and shoes are made of, the plastic that our toys are made from, the plastic that all the useless shit is made from, the plastic that our entire society is wrapped up in.  

Globally, according to Forbes, people buy 1 Million plastic bottles a minute. Per MINUTE! 91% are not recycled.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/26/million-plastic-bottles-minute-91-not-recycled/#2cc34496292c

​We live in denial. We don't care enough, we don't feel enough. We are surrounded by plastic, it is nearly impossible to get away.
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So we can enter this installation and write a letter to water. We can enter and be confronted with our very own impact on the world around us. Come see a reflection of your life, or at least, of my life.  A tiny part of my carbon footprint.

More info about my installation will be coming as things develop. 
Currently, I am looking for an exhibition location where the installation can be up for several months.


Photo by Ryan Mulder.
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Updates on 'The Invisibility Project' by Brittany Patterson

12/4/2017

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Since the performance of "The Invisibility Project" at SARUS fall equinox I have been thinking about what is next with regards to changing race relations in Wilmington. When I began working on this project I set out to reach people and get a conversation started on a deeper level than what normally surfaces. Art does that. It reaches us on a bodily, organic level that goes much deeper than our click bait world that we now live in and where so much of our conversations about race occur. As a cast we took up the mantra "we can't move forward unless we are honest about where we are". It was from this understanding that we created the dance and spoken word performance and it is from this understanding that we take the next steps in this process. Using the performance as an anchor for discussions I am launching what I call "The well intended" workshop series. This will be a series of recorded discussions with various homogenous groups to discuss their unique perspective on the racial divide in this country and Wilmington specifically. The content of these discussions will then be used as inspiration for further development of the piece as part of the creative process. My hope is to use movement in these workshops as well to help community members get in touch with their visceral, first appraisal responses to racial tensions. In this way the art influences life as life influences art. I am very excited to take this next step in the process.

​Visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Invisibility-Project-1949234375402668/ for more details. 
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