Trash Salon: How to do things with waste?

2–6pm

25 October
Toynbee Studios, Court room

Tickets for the Salon are FREE on a first-come-first-served basis on the day

A Salon with Performance Matters Researchers

Join PhD researchers and artists (including me!) from Goldsmiths, University of London and University of Roehampton as they kick-start the week’s events by sharing their ‘wasted works.' At the Trash Salon, presentations, papers and performances and various show-and-tell formats will centre around those ideas, works, and projects that for various reasons were unfinished, refused, rejected, thrown out, and interrupted: the sketch in the notebook, the unsuccessful project proposal, the unaccomplished element, the event that was cancelled. What happens to these wasted works and ideas, and what are their potentials, if any?

Does showing wasted work imply salvaging it from the trash heap? Is recuperating and transforming waste enough? Or might we think about the ways we reflect upon, present and perform these wasted works? These are some of its questions.