Whoever You Voted For the Government Got In
A poster project inspired by the Library book Radical Technology edited by Peter Harper, Godfrey Boyle. We were particularly inpspired by the drawings of Harper's brother-Clifford Harper. Clifford Harper's black and white drawings depict what the new world that folks were imagining might look like, and how it might function. We used a letterpress to print the imagined poster from Clifford Harper's drawing,"Basement Workshop," depicting a thriving colletive artmaking workshop.
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Containers are everywhere in the streets of Copenhagen. You find them where old buildings are being renovated, new construction is going up, or at houses purging their courtyards of things no longer being used by residents. They are filled with discarded items that reveal the excess of material wealth. Often their contents are not exhausted, but could be used several more times before incineration. The containers have been generous to us. They have given us two bikes, a sweater, and a lot of cardboard for our project. These giant free boxes, lack a system of reclamation and secondary use. Besides the odd passerby peeping in to see if there are items worth salvaging, there is no organized means of transferring the containers’ gifts. Cardboard was a readily available free material from containers. We were able to take a tiny amount out of circulation and put it to different uses. We made seating for a large group of people. We took the waste we produced and turned it into something we could use. Cardboard scraps were put together into oversized fonts spelling out ideas related to the library project.
