A HEIM.ART®-Project by Joachim Eckl
Within the 8th international waste management congress

November 2007
Congress Centre Vienna

The collected waste of a town is human’s work. It is now used as a material and “substance for art” in a creative way – also in terms of “shaping a city”. 4 prototypes of “waste-culture-pillars” have been built from the plastic waste collected in one hour in Vienna. These pillars are the basic elements of the vision of an artistic intervention in Vienna’s public area. They make the amount and the spatial volume of the daily collection of plastic waste a subject of discussion. At the same time the notion of “cultural pillars” symbolizes the supporting role of our handling of waste in our culture. The “waste-culture-pillars” have a powerful effect caused by their specific aesthetic and their expansive installation. They convey a monumental moment of orderly collected waste.

CITY-SPACE-VISION I
Vienna’s collected plastic waste of one day will be installed as 81 “waste-culture-pillars” in the courtyard of the “Museumsquartier”.

CITY-SPACE-VISION II
The daily collected plastic waste of the city of Vienna will be installed as a expansive “plastic waste installation” in the public area for 30 days. 2430 “waste-culture-pillars” will grow in the public area in this period – just like the remains of a gigantic colonnade of an ancient temple city.

COLLECTED WASTE OF VIENNA IN 2007:
1 h = approx. 570 kg / approx. 23,74 m3
1 DAY = approx. 13,68 t / 570 m3
30 DAYS = approx. 410,4 t / 17100 m3

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