Amber Ginsburg, Carla Duarte, and Lisa Rousset: Repurpose July 19, 2009

MCA's five week multidisciplinary performance series 'Here/Not There' continues. Using the gallery as a meeting room, Amber Ginsburg, Carla Duarte, and Lisa Rousset record and repurpose everyday materials through their durational performances. They place common objects, such as sweaters, bricks, and seeds, into yellow rickshaws and move throughout the museum and city streets. The artists ask people to help them repurpose the materials. The sweaters are transformed back into their previous state of wool strings; the bricks, originally pieces of architecture, become canvases for portraiture; and the seeds, which have been saved from foods the artists consumed, are distributed for future planting.