The Total Styrene Experience is a laboratory for recycling Styrofoam into art and performance, turning the glut of empty storefronts and the glut of discarded Styrofoam into an opportunity for experimentation and collaboration across live and visual art. A temporary pop-up storefront in Lower Man... Read more
The Total Styrene Experience is a laboratory for recycling Styrofoam into art and performance, turning the glut of empty storefronts and the glut of discarded Styrofoam into an opportunity for experimentation and collaboration across live and visual art. A temporary pop-up storefront in Lower Manhattan will collect styrofoam from the surrounding community and turn it into art.
The project aims to create a small temporary space for creative generosity and intellectual abundance in resistance to the commercial and institutional models of competition and scarcity that define current art worlds. It celebrates the alchemy of turning toxic Styrofoam trash into a source of artistic abundance.
A project of artist Lizzie Scott, The Total Styrene Experience presents installations and performances exploring the material relationship between Styrofoam and the body. Working with curators Michael Mahalchick and Patricia Milder, The Total Styrene Experience invites guest artists from the dance, music, and art worlds to use the combined resources of the space and the collected Styrofoam to create experimental work of all kinds.
Participating Artists (list in formation.)
Kennis Hawkins – Choreographer and Performance Artist, Dance Gang
Michael Mahalchick – Visual, Sound, Dance and Performance Artist
Rashaun Mitchell – Choreographer and Dancer, Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Lizzie Scott – Visual Artist and Performance Choreographer, The Styrene Fantastic
Max Steele – Conceptual Go-Go Dancer and Cabaret Performance Artist
Project Organizers
Lizzie Scott has had exhibitions and projects at John Tevis Gallery in Paris, at the Brooklyn Museum, The Jersey City Museum, and at LMAK Projects in New York. She has recently staged performances in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, at Rachel Uffner Gallery, and under the Manhattan Bridge.
