Trash Book

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Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on August 15, 2011 at 4:52am

Probably mostly true, DVS, but have you taken a good look at Rauschenberg's combines?  No one will say so, but they're mostly glorious trash with some paint thrown in.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on August 15, 2011 at 4:36am

This is a great discussion. I'm laughing. During The Great Trashpo Summit in the asemic group we named our found art IUOMA contingent - Erni & DK must be the reigning king & queen - the Trash People after those amazing assemblages. Art News article is great Thom, but I don't think any of it stands up to DK - Queen of Trash - or Little Shiva and her Trash Baby. I think mail-art owns Trashpo; it's just underground. The mainstream art world - that's fake trash!

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on August 15, 2011 at 4:23am

Erni, my mind is blown by this photo (in a good way).  The ARTnews article is very interesting, Thom, thanks for posting.  There are more than a few individuals mentioned in it that I need to look up, but just the focus on trash in/as art, not to mention the highlighting of the fact that it has a history, pretty much thrills me.  I don't appreciate that the article refers to Rauschenberg as "imitating himself," since I'm a lover of much of Rauschenberg, especially his combines, but that's ok -- the ending, about dust, really did it for me.

Comment by Thom Courcelle on August 15, 2011 at 4:05am

Hey all-- I meant to post a link to this article earlier, because it immediately made me think of our "trashpo" artists, but I was negligent.  Many of you might have seen it if you are regular readers of ARTnews magazine. It was an article by Kim Levin called "Talking Trash" in the June 2011 edition:

http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=3338

Enjoy!  ...and kudos on the brilliant piece, Diane!

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on August 15, 2011 at 4:02am

Hastening to add that you don't sound like the folks who have piles of newspapers to the ceiling and nowhere to sit. It's not that way in my house either.  Actually, they probably exist only on afternoon tv.  But if we could stir their imaginations, their resources probably know no bounds.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on August 15, 2011 at 3:49am

That sounds right, Diane:  hoarders are frustrated trashpoets, and you are an *excellent* and outed one.  The only reason I haven't drowned in used & found stuff is that my husband is a Buddhist, and they tend to like sparsity so I make little concessions.  But secretly they are drawn to enrichment by falling in love with junque collectors and even contributing items from the sidewalk or railroad tracks from time to time.  Probably the most often asked question in my shop was "Where do you *find* all this stuff?"  Phil would say "She just walks around and it sticks to her."

You stitch!  Wish I knew how.  Wire for books is very tempting, though I don't want to hurt anyone.  Usually.

Comment by DKeys on August 15, 2011 at 2:08am

I'm laughing so hard at you picturing me buried in piles of trash,  with narrow pathways  from the computer to my art space.  Initially I used found objects and and trash because I was too poor to buy art supplies. It was a challenge to create  something out of  nothing and then it just had me hooked.  Love the term Trashpo. So maybe  hoarders are all frustrated trashpoets? I never get a chance to hoard trash because I glue it down and send it to you guys!

Comment by DKeys on August 15, 2011 at 1:49am

Thank you guys. Nancy, the binding is hand stitched. On others I usually use a machine (i've broken lots of needles).  I couldn't bring myself to use your A plus list since the story is so good it needs to be preserved.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on August 15, 2011 at 1:19am

There's a thread in the asemic group call "The Great Trashpo Summit" (or something like that) - that has links to Jim's original Trashpo pieces. He's an IUOMA member; check him out. He's an EXCELLENT visual poet.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on August 15, 2011 at 1:07am

Theresa, you missed the whole Trashpo thing, I guess. It looks like Jim Leftwich named it around 2005. Yes - it's taking found material with writing and text and arranging it (randomly as possible) to make a poem - that's very general, of course. (There were lengthy discussions about Trashpo and its relation to asemic writing in the group.) Certainly that can be traced back to Da Da, but with vispo, the idea is given new context. I started noticing that at least some of DK's work could be considered Trashpo. She doesn't seem to object. Jim's Trashpo moniker seems to have caught on as a handy moniker.

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