Art Projects
Blog Basecamp
Angelina was invited to write a recurring blog for BAK’s Basecamp — a long-term, collective research environment in Utrecht, where artists, activists, writers, and cultural workers assemble to imagine, test, and rehearse different ways of living and organising.
Through these blog posts she documents fragments of conversations, practices, experiments, and emerging questions, so that the process of Basecamp does not remain contained inside the room but becomes accessible to wider publics. She writes for those who cannot be physically present — peers, audiences, and collaborators-to-be — so they can follow the thinking as it unfolds and step into it from wherever they are.
Access the blog here: (Link)
Das Spectrum
Das Spectrum Foundation is a Utrecht art platform focused on connecting and supporting local artists and art initiatives, with equal dignity and solidarity as shared values. With our peer support program we investigate the relationship between the precarious circumstances, mental health and resilience of our colleagues within the cultural ecosystem of the urban and regional environment of Utrecht. We focuses in particular on the (mental) resilience of grassroots art initiatives and as fertile soil for our local Utrecht ecosystem.
Feest Je Fit
Waste Bar
At the WasteBar you can get a drink or a snack and pay with litter, such as cans and cigarette butts. Because litter has (circular) value. We turn the waste into new raw materials for products. We are currently looking at how cigarette butts can be biologically degraded or how we can make a usable plastic or textile from them. This is how we complete the circle. At the WasteBar you can experience what the future looks like.
Angelina Kumar conducted research together with students from HKU and in collaboration with Lab Pastoe into the recycling potential of cigarette butts. During this research, Angelina discovered that the mycelium of certain mushrooms can be “trained” to feed on cigarette butts. Graduating artist Vivian Erdtsieck created forms in which the public can add their own cigarette butts. As the mycelium grows towards the cigarettes, interesting patterns emerge and the audience experiences the effect.
Results of the research in both up-cycling and down-cycling possibilities of litter are exhibited at the WasteHub. Located at Westplein 1001 Utrecht.
Website: https://wastebar.nl/
Inspiratie Boom
Little Artistic Engineers Academy
THE CREATIVE PLAYGROUND
2020 – 2024
Lucrative Dumpster Dives and Perron West collaborated to inspire social and sustainable values by connecting people through art and culture in Lombok and Utrecht. In the summer of 2020, they started a public art program in the Westplein, known as The Golden Location.
The cute and functional train wagon, open-air space and onsite LDD work space was available for artists and makers through an artist residency program. Artists were encouraged to experiment and engage with the neighbourhood by, including them in the creative process. Themes of sustainability, community and ecology, were explored through giving workshops, music, performance and film events, sculptures, interactive participatory art interventions and festivals. The public programs were also accessible to and enjoyed by the 30,000 people who pass by on a daily basis.
Location Address: Westplein 1001, Utrecht, Netherlands
LUCRATIVE DUMPSTER DIVES
Lucrative Dumpster Dives (LDD) is a cultural foundation developed to connect and inspire organisations and artists alike to create a sustainable and circular art and culture sector.
Bring circularity and sustainability from within the arts to make a positive impact in society. By walking the walk of practical engagements, we aim to inspire and transform the art and cultural sector with long-term behaviour change and a mindset towards sustainability.
We enact and facilitate projects and activities that motivate positive change for social, sustainable and circular issues.
LDD has set up a series of stores that offer rest materials to artists, makers, students and festivals. We coordinate and curate a broad range of initiatives, such as but not limited to: cultural events, workshops and exhibitions.
For more information please visit the LDD Website: http://lucrativedumpsterdives.nl/
Newsletters
November 2019
August 2019
ART SWAP SHOPS
LDD store at De Nijverheid Utrecht Netherlands
LDD at HKU Pastoe Fabriek Rotsoord 3, 3523 CL Utrecht, Netherlands.
LDD at HKU Oudenoord 700, 3513 EX Utrecht, Netherlands.
LDD at HKU Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan 50, 3582 VA Utrecht, Netherlands.
VIDEOS
Interview with students using LDD