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Kelly Wood: The Continuous Garbage Project

2003 / ISBN 0-88865-626-2
48 pages, colour, paperback

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Exhibition catalogue from Kelly Wood: The Continuous Garbage Project, 1998-2003 at the Belkin (21 March—11 May 2003) with texts by Scott Watson, Peter Culley, Christina Ritchie, Ian Wallace and Kelly Wood. The exhibition marks the completion of a long project. For five years, since Vancouver’s garbage workers’ strike in spring 1998 and concluding the week before the opening of the exhibition in 2003, Wood photographed her own garbage. The waste from Wood’s Vancouver home was neatly packaged and photographed against a studio backdrop, while the waste documented on her travels shows the objects wrapped or unwrapped in their immediate surroundings. The 275 images are clearly focussed, carefully composed and sumptuously printed. But The Continuous Garbage Project isn’t simply about the aestheticisation of waste. It also raises issues about environmental awareness, consumerism, labour, obsessive impulses and the viewer’s desire to engage in voyeuristic behaviour while scrupulously examining the contents through the semi-transparent plastic bags. In a conscious effort that changed her consumer habits, Wood managed to reduce the amount of waste she produces.

  • Peter Culley

    Writer
  • Christina Ritchie

    Writer
  • Ian Wallace

    Writer
  • Scott Watson

    Curator

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

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  • Kelly Wood

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    21 March 2003 – 11 May 2003

    Kelly Wood: Continuous Garbage Project 1998-2003

    The exhibition of Kelly Wood’s The Continuous Garbage Project marks the completion of a long project. For five years, since Vancouver’s garbage workers’ strike in spring 1998 and concluding the week before the opening of this exhibition in 2003, Wood photographed her own garbage. The waste from Wood’s Vancouver home was neatly packaged and photographed against a studio backdrop, while the waste documented on her travels shows the objects wrapped or unwrapped in their immediate surroundings.

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