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“Beauty and the Beast”: Performance art
against plastic pollution
In “Beauty and the Beast,” the internal invasion of hormones,
presented at The Tributaries Project chemicals and microplastics,
Seminar (Apr 26), Luke offers an leeched into our bodies from plastic
account of how performance art containers. In the seminar, Luke
can challenge traditional forms of presented initial ideas for his
gallery art, and therefore art’s performance artwork against plastic
commodification. This makes it ideal pollution. Using the human body
for inspiring social change. “Body was central. Referring to a clean-up
art” he adds, is an off-shoot of project where a whale-shaped cage
performance art, where the human was made, into which people threw
body becomes the canvas. This trash collected in the area, he also
introduces novel connotations into planned to use plastic trash picked
the artist’s symbolic palette, which up locally. But he envisaged
are particularly interesting in view structures that people can wear,
of the plastic problem. There is a turning the tables in the sense that
sense in which human bodies and performers would not throw trash
environments are significantly out, as we have been doing for so
“becoming-plastic,” not only due to long, but would themselves, as
the ubiquity of plastic goods used human bodies, be filled with,
and carelessly discarded, but also to covered by, and bearing this trash.
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