EST
2010
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
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We the artists of ReVision - the Art of Recycling Society create art in order to highlight the plight of our shared environment.
By repurposing discarded materials and found objects into art, we hope to kindle the spirt of conservation and stewardship urgently needed today.
ReVision had many successful shows on Granville Island in the past decade. After a hiatus we are now relaunching our non profit society to engage environmentally concerned Canadians.
ReVision promotes recycling through exhibitions and demonstrations of art made from recycled, salvaged, or found materials. Our mission is to provide a showcase for artists who upcycle materials and objects as a major component of their creative process. We aim to provide public venues to advance awareness of sustainability and a zero waste/circular economy.
The focus of ReVision goes far beyond promoting recycling. We make art to raise consciousness about the importance of environmental issues – plastic pollution, destruction of the biosphere and the global climate disaster. There is an urgent need to reform government and corporate policies at the highest levels.
We plan a series of art shows, workshops and seminars to work with other environmental groups, green companies and government bodies to improve how we live as a society. Attitudes and laws need to change.
It is ReVision’s objective to establish ReVision as a thriving non profit society based on grants and sponsorships so artists of limited means committed to environmental protection may exhibit their work. We need to pay professional artists’ fees and honoraria according to national standards including the CARFAC fee schedule.
Sincerely,
Ron Simmer
Emeritus Librarian, UBC
ReVision the Art of Recycling is a non-profit society of artists that design and create art to raise consciousness about the importance of environmental issues and global climate change. ReVision hosts art events within the Vancouver region, such as fashion shows, sculpture events, and art sales showcasing art made from repurposing recycled materials and objects. These events are used to educate the public on methods of increasing sustainability, the importance of a circular economy, and intelligent recycling techniques.
Why art from repurposed objects and materials?
Artists have created art from found objects ever since Picasso’s collages. He worked for striking juxtapositions, deconstructing and reconstructing common images into the unreal. Surrealists produced unusual, bizarre and shocking assemblages of common things.
In recent years, the Steampunk movement has produced curious constructs of odd mechanical devices as a homage to Victorian machinery.
Today, artists working with found objects and repurposed materials are best compared to hackers, tearing apart consumer products to make crazy interactive installations.
Many millennial artists are deeply concerned with environmental and political issues. Much of their art makes strong statements using disturbing combinations of images in twisted metal and plastic.
One example is “Cracking Art”, the European movement to dramatize plastic pollution by creating giant temporary plastic artworks designed to inspire sensibility for recycling.
The focus of ReVision goes far beyond promoting recycling. We make art to raise consciousness about the importance of environmental issues – plastic pollution, destruction of the biosphere and the oncoming global climate disaster producing wholesale extinction of species, acidification of the oceans and massive wildfires. There is an urgent need to reform government and corporate policies at the highest levels.
What is recycled art?
Ever wonder what happened to that old trombone discarded long ago, or your mother's stash of buttons, or that pair of water skis stored at the cottage since 1962?
In the hands of an artist, recycled trash is transformed into new creations.
Stylistically diverse, these works incorporate reclaimed objects: an old book, bottle caps, a lobster float, propane cylinders, and a plethora of junkyard treasures. ReVision promotes recycling through exhibitions and demonstrations of art made from or using recycled, salvaged, scrounged or found materials.
