{"id":657,"date":"2013-05-10T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=657"},"modified":"2013-05-18T21:29:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T05:29:01","slug":"the-midden-project-living-with-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/the-midden-project-living-with-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midden Project: Living with Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Midden<\/em> – four years worth of Margaret and Christine Wertheim’s domestic plastic trash.<\/p><\/div>\n

On Saturday May 18, IFF Director Margaret Wertheim<\/strong> will give a public lecture about the Midden Project<\/strong> \u00a0at\u00a0The New Children’s Museum<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in San Diego. The talk is in conjunction with the Museum’s ongoing\u00a0TRASH<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0exhibition, which features the\u00a0IFF’s\u00a0Midden<\/em>\u00a0project<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as the centerpiece of a show in which artists reflect on rubbish. The core of the IFFs installation is\u00a0a large sculpture that contains four years’ worth of Margaret and Christine Wertheims’ domestic plastic trash, collected in their home from 2007 – 2011, and hung here in a fishing net, metaphorically referencing a toxic ocean catch.<\/p>\n

Supplementing the Midden<\/em> sculpture is a participatory aspect of the project in which thousands of San Diego children have been making plastic trash “Midden Monsters.” Over the past 18 months more than 7000 children have contributed to an ongoing cloud of trash creations, constituting a child-generated collaborative artwork known as the ‘San Diego Midden’.<\/p>\n

Margaret’s lecture will chronicle the\u00a0Midden<\/em>\u00a0and its innovative approach to raising awareness about plastic trash in our seas. The event is part of the NCM’s 5th Birthday celebration.<\/p>\n

EVENT FREE: \u00a0For adults.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Children’s cloud of Midden Monsters at the New Children’s Museum, San Diego.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday May 18, IFF Director Margaret Wertheim will give a public lecture about the Midden Project \u00a0at\u00a0The New Children’s Museum\u00a0in San Diego. The talk is in conjunction with the Museum’s ongoing\u00a0TRASH\u00a0exhibition, which features the\u00a0IFF’s\u00a0Midden\u00a0project\u00a0as the centerpiece of a show in which artists reflect on rubbish. The core of the IFFs installation is\u00a0a large sculpture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}