{"id":5117,"date":"2023-03-22T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/what-is-trash-art-makersplace-magazine\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:04:00","slug":"what-is-trash-art-makersplace-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/what-is-trash-art-makersplace-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Trash Art? | MakersPlace Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Defining Trash Art at this moment, less than three years into its consecration, is a dubious exercise. After all, Ed Sanders of The Fugs first used the term \u201cpunk rock\u201d 53 years ago to the date of this publication (March 22), which predates the release of the first Ramones album by six years and the release of Richard Hell\u2019s and The Sex Pistols\u2019 debuts in 1977 by seven years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which is to say that it\u2019s simply not been around long enough for any one person to decide what it is or is not. But let me hazard my way into these barely charted waters despite all warnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Think of Trash Art as the conceptual love-child of Junk Art and Glitch Art.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Within the category of Junk Art, we find things like assemblages, found objects, readymades, d\u00e9collage, and certain types of collage. Junk art rests on the demonstration that any kind of material or object \u2014 oftentimes the more mundane the better \u2014 can be used to make nearly any type of art.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The operative effect of Junk Art is defamiliarization \u2014 what Russian Formalists called ostranenie. <\/em>The effect is created by presenting common things in unfamiliar ways so the viewer gains a new perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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