In July, the Polymorphic Plastic Parade rolled into town and (in cooperation with Austin Green Art) set up camp in Republic Square Park, spent the night, and then headed over to our beloved MASS Gallery to explain themselves and their purpose to the people.
What is the Polymorphic Plastic Parade?
If you haven’t noticed, Art can be quite useless at times. Installation Art more or less is not only useless it can be quite wasteful, usually consisting of mostly waste itself; a big ass mess waiting to be disposed of after the show closes. These facts weighed heavily on the minds of installation artists Ian Gamble and Sarah Witt, so much so that they, like Diego Rivera, set out to make Art that was useful to the public, but unlike ‘Digs’, did so with by using my favorite non native invasive sustainable material, bamboo, and unlikely to be recycled tarpaulins, nicked from lumber yards, creating a village of tepees.
Fuggin Tepees y’all!!! I know right?! They managed to create affordable native housing out of non native materials. Afterwards, Ian & Sarah and some friends, loaded it all into a school bus to tour North America and spread their awesome outdoorsy gospel. This project became known as the…
Polymorphic Plastic Parade!
Although I declined to camp out overnight in the mobile tepee village, several Circus Gold amigos did, including Co-Lab’s Sean Gaulager & Superman Sam Sanford, braving the frigid July night while roasting marshmallows and telling ghost stories to their new tree hugging homies. Score one for Captain Planet.
For more information about the Polymorphic Plastic Parade, check out their website:
The MASS Gallery is located at 916 Springdale Rd. in East Austin, 78702.
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Tags: America · Austin Green Art · Bamboo · Bamboozled · Circus Gold · Hobo Jungle · Installation · Lumber Yard · Mass Gallery · Polymorphic Plastic Parade · Sugar Bricks · Tepees2 Comments
usually your stuff isn’t as complimentary. what gives?
everyone loves tipis.