A heterodox compendium of “beasts of waste,” playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on various kinds of animals.
Wastiary: A Bestiary of Waste is a creative exercise that occupies letters, numbers, and symbols of Western academic language to compose a list of thirty-five short entries on the uncomfortable but pressing topic of waste in the contemporary world. The collection is richly illustrated with artwork, photography, collage, and mixed media and conveys the message that various forms of waste and pollution have achieved a beast-like or untamable quality, at times pungently transferring to considerations of “the human,” or humans treated as waste.
Wastiary: A Bestiary of Waste is a creative exercise that occupies letters, numbers, and symbols of Western academic language to compose a list of thirty-five short entries on the uncomfortable but pressing topic of waste in the contemporary world. The collection is richly illustrated with artwork, photography, collage, and mixed media and conveys the message that various forms of waste and pollution have achieved a beast-like or untamable quality, at times pungently transferring to considerations of “the human,” or humans treated as waste.
176 pages | 67 color plates | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2023
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Architecture: History of Architecture
Art: Art--General Studies
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors List of Figures Foreword by Clare Melhuish and Nicola Miller Introduction by Michael Hennessy Picard, Albert Brenchat-Aguilar, Timothy Carroll & Jane Gilbert | for Strips of Paper by Nina Mathijsen A for Architecture of Ruins by Jonathan Hill B for Bomb Ecologies by Leah Zani C for Capitalism (Plastic) by Amanda Boetzkes D for Data Waste by Elettra Bietti and Roxana Vatanparast E for Excrement by Franziska Neumann F for Fire by Stamatis Zografos G for Ground Up by Onya McClousand H for Hairs by Robyn Adams I for Identity by Caitlin De Silvey J for Junk Bonds by David Sim K for Kinship (chemical) by Angeliki Balayannis L for Land-Wasted by Sonia Freire Trigo M for Microbes by Elaine Cloutman-Green N for Nalu by Mellissa McCarthy Ñ for Ñiquiñaque by Adriana Laura Massidda and Hanna Baumann O for Outsource by Matthijs de Bruijne P for Problem by Bruno Vindrola-Padrós and Ulrike Sommer Q for Queer liveliness/Matter/Toxin by Mel Y. Chen R for Rubble by Adam Przywara S for Space Junk by Alice Gorman T for Time and Tower: Grenfell by José Torero Cullen U for Underground by Luke Bennett V for Vastus by Véra Ehrenstein W for Wasteland by Miranda Griffin X for Xenophobia by Huda Tayob Y for Yawning/Yearning by Tatiana Thieme Z for Zero Waste by Pushpa Arabindoo * for corona-shapes by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar 1 for 1% by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos 2 for HS2 by Chia-Lin Chen 3 for From a 3rd World to an Included 3rd by Lucy Bell 4&6 for 4th Industrial Revolution and 6th Extinction by Everisto Benyera 5 for 5G by Sy Taffel 7 for Seven Dear Things by Maja and Reuben Fowkes 8 for Octopus by Tina Beigi 9 for 9/11 by Michael Picard Epilogue by Tamar Garb Notes