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RAIR: Live at the Dump

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Martha McDonald performs Songs of Memory and Forgetting as part of RAIR: Live at the Dump. Photo by Mike Persico.
Martha McDonald performs Songs of Memory and Forgetting as part of RAIR: Live at the Dump. Photo by Mike Persico.
Martha McDonald, Songs of Memory and Forgetting. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Martha McDonald, Songs of Memory and Forgetting. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Martha McDonald, Songs of Memory and Forgetting. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Martha McDonald, Songs of Memory and Forgetting. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Martha McDonald, Songs of Memory and Forgetting. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Martha McDonald, Songs of Memory and Forgetting. Photo by Ryan Collerd.

RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) presented an interactive, site-specific program that utilized a series of films, performances, and discussions to increase public awareness of the waste stream and the role of art in shaping social and environmental consciousness. For the first time, RAIR hosted this programming at its location within Revolution Recovery, a Northeast Philadelphia recycling center. Modeled after the experience of a RAIR artist-in-residence, Live at the Dump moved from an exploration phase, featuring the screening of films on post-industrial society, to an immersion phase, with interdisciplinary performances and interpretive tours, to reflection, with the transformation of the recycling center's dumping area into a lounge and cinema environment. Live at the Dump offered audiences a look into the reality of post-consumer processing and questioned how the creative process may feed it. For the workers at Revolution Recovery, the project provided exposure to the creative work happening at RAIR and a new perspective on their labor.


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Martha McDonald and Billy Dufala in Songs of Memory and Forgetting. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) builds awareness about sustainability issues through art and design by presenting programs and exhibitions, acting as a materials supplier for artists and designers, and offering a residency program that provides artists on-site access to recovered materials and a studio space to produce work. 

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