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Reconfiguring the Everyday: Performance

            Art against Plastic Pollution




            In “Reconfiguring the Everyday”          authentic response of genuine

            presented at the Tributaries             change. Sharon Rudman examines
            Colloquium (Nov 20), Luke teamed         this philosophically, while Luke
            up with Dr Sharon Rudman (see            considers how “performance

            page 152) to consider the much           artwork” – using his “plastic
            publicised and discussed issue of        monsters” campaign as a case study

            plastic pollution. They argue that       – may grab the attention of viewers
            despite this publicity, our everyday     by reconfiguring everyday objects,

            reliance on single-use plastics has      thereby disrupting how we
            not changed enough, suggesting           ordinarily experience them. He took

            that the public “talk” is just about     the over-familiar plastic objects that
            “knowing what to say” instead of an      we discard as everyday waste

                                                     (single-use plastic containers and
                                                     wrappings) and rearranged them to
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