JUNK
MAIL EXHIBITION | CHICAGO ARTS DISTRICT | APRIL 11 - DECEMBER
31, 2008
Sponsored
by the Chicago Arts District and Podmajersky, Inc., Barbara Hashimoto
presents White Trash and Junk Mail in the 2003 South
Halsted Street complex.
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BARBARA
HASHIMOTO ON FRESH CUT
A video
of Barbara Hashimoto: Junk Mail by Dorothee Royal-Hedinger link>
ART
IN AMERICA REVIEW
The
sensation of swimming in trash, or junk, seems quintessentially
modern – a consequence of insatiable appetites for new products
and the attendant proliferation of packaging and advertising.
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BARBARA
HASHIMOTO GETS ALL TRASHY
Hashimoto
gracefully scoops up mounds of multicolored shredded junk mail
while musician Edward Torrez vigorously plays lingering piano
riffs.
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JUNK
MAIL TIMELINE
As Artist-in-Residence
at BauerLatoza Studio, a multidisciplinary architecture firm with
a committed sustainable design practice, Hashimoto proposes to
collect the junk mail that the firm receives for 12 months.
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JUNK
MAIL WEAVINGS
"...restrained
abstractions composed of woven strips of shredded advertisements".
Kirsten
Swenson, Art
in America, April 2008
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WHITE
TRASH | ARTROPOLIS 2008
In
conjunction with ARTropolis, Hashimoto presents a Junk Mail installation
and premieres White Trash. more
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BARBARA
HASHIMOTO'S INTERVIEW ON WTCC
Hashimoto
discusses The Junk Mail Project on Chicago Public Television (aired
April 20)
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JUNK
MAIL FACTS
100 million trees are cut down to produce junk mail annually.
The majority of junk mail is produced from natural forests.
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BARBARA
HASHIMOTO AT MONUMENT, APRIL 2008
Hashimoto
creates a shredded junk mail installation in the lobby of The
Ruth Page Center for the Arts during the run of The Seldoms'
Monument. more>
INSTALLATION
PERFORMANCE | CHICAGO 2007
In conjunction with the
City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Barbara
Hashimoto presented the performance/installation, Shredded
Junk Mail with Grand Piano.
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JUNK
MAIL WITH LUNA NEGRA DANCE THEATER BENEFIT
After cocktails, live music, and tapas at the Dubhe Carreno Gallery,
guests strolled down the block to see Barbara Hashimoto: Junk
Mail exhibition at 2003
South Halsted Street.