Angelina Kumar
LDD - Lucrative Dumpster Dives
The Swap Shops:
The LDD project has various forms, one is a series of swap shops offering reusable art supplies for students, the currency, exchanging their own access materials. The student gets a membership card making them a part of the swapping community giving them access to unique reusable art supplies. The stores also welcomes excess materials and supplies from external artists and art institutions such as bak, IFFR and Impakt.
The shops and all other products made for LDD are constructed using found material from the surrounding area of the academy.
The vision is to reduce the carbon footprint of the creative industry while providing supplies for artists based on the principles of zero-waste circular economy.
Life is an Artwork and Artwork is Life | Our Anthropocene Era
Exploring a circular design thinking education program for the arts
Along with these assignments’ students have access to the LDD swap shops where they can practice the basics circler design thinking on a practical level. Through interactive happenings, events, classes, internship programs and social media platforms the project is expanding.
- Artist statement; wat is je specialisme, wat maakt jouw werk uniek?
ARTIST STATEMENT
As an artist and mother my concerns for the environment and love for the arts intertwine. The role art plays in society to affect and create change over time is a driving force in my practice. This fuels my fascination to research, explore and develop artistic ventures that
instigate ecological and social change.
My modus operandi is to create playful experiences and experimental engagements around these issues. This triggers the subconscious mind on different levels, ideas are explored, new things are discovered and developed. As a result, my work is multi-disciplinary in its forms.
Some projects require time and nurturing, so another stage of my process is to research and customise platforms or communal actives to foster and facilitate growth.
My practice entails working with art institutions, collectives, art academies, galleries and public spaces. Developing customisable projects that surround a social or ecological subject. Collaborating, researching, experimenting and working from within the contexts of the local environment and culture. - Wat zijn je ambities? Wat wil je over vijf jaar bereikt hebben?
The arts are perceived as a tool to spur society at large towards creative alternatives for a better future, with this ideology in mind, it is my goal to play a role within the arts to facilitate ecological change. My path starts first from working within art academies and institutions to instigate a higher level of ecological sustainability within the everyday actions, reinforcing the arts to set, by example, the standards by which society can draw inspiration from. My five-year goals include, infusing circular design thinking methods into the education system in combination with developing platforms that foster cross over ecological activities and ventures within the arts.
- Wat is het belangrijkste dat je hebt geleerd tijdens je studie?
During my studies I’ve discovered the value and privilege it is to indulge one’s senses in the arts. This has compelled me to use the knowledge I’ve gained to transfer change within my surroundings. I’ve also seen the strength in doing crossover projects with different studies and methods within the arts for a well-rounded result.
- Overzicht van publicaties / exposities / prijzen / concerten / voorstellingen etc.
LDD - Lucrative Dumpster Dives
A series of art swap shops within the HKU.