ArtYarn - Gaia Project

Let's go 'Tag Bagging' in Liverpool...

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Why not take a trip to the Independents Liverpool Biennial 08 and see ArtYarn's plastic bag 'tags' on the streets.

All locations of the 'tags', knitted from plastic bags, collected and recycled from the streets of Liverpool are indicated on the map below.

Maps are available at the Gaia Project 'Gaia Cabinet' exhibition space at 17 The Colonnades, Albert Dock.

Or click on the image below and print out the map from here.

Enjoy!

Thursday 13th November 2008 : Plastic Bag Tags go up in Liverpool

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Tag 1: Paradise Street in Liverpool One

Tag 2: Wood Street

Tag 3: Oldham Street

Tag 4: Roscoe Street

Tag 5: Rodney Street

Tag 6: Rodney Street

Tag 7: Hardman Street

Tag 8: Mount Pleasant

Tag 9: Mount Pleasant.

Tag 10: Liverpool Lime Street station entrance.

Plastic Bag Tags Ready to Go...

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Working at the gaia Cabinet, Albet Docks. 26th October 2008

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The Gaia Cabinet, No. 17, The colonades, Albet Docks.

The Albert Docks, Liverpool - view from the Gaia Cabinet.

Bringing all cleaned bags together ready to shread and knit with.

Shreading the bags and knitting with the newly created plastic bag yarns.

Work in progress..
A completed plastic bag bomb.

Plastic bag yarn bombing, the next stage..

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The washing and rinsing stage of found plastic bags, before they are shredded and turned into a yarn.

Thursday 16th October 2008

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Total of 31 plastic carrier bags collected from the streets of Liverpool.

12:31 - Liverpool Lime Street station entrance, 2 x Marks & Spencer bags

12:51 - Parker Street outside Tesco Metro, 1 x Tesco bag

12:55 - Parker Street, 1 x red unbranded bag

13:08 - Lord Street, 1 x green unbranded bag

13:35 - Wood Street, 1 x Home Bargains bag

13:39 - Wood Street, 1 x Lakeland bag

14:25 - Colquitt Street, 1 x Greggs bag

14:27 - Renshaw Street, 1 x Subway bag

14:29 - Oldham Street, 1 x Asda bag

14:39 - Roscoe Street, 1 x green unbranded bag

14:42 - Roscoe Street, 1 x white unbranded bag

14:45 - Roscoe Street, 1 x Asda bag

14:47 - Roscoe Street, 1 x white unbranded bag & 1 x Sainsburys bag

14:48 - Roscoe Street, 1 x Home Bargains bag

14:51 - 72 Rodney Street, 1 x blue unbranded bag & 1 x red/white stripe unbranded bag

14:54 - 56 Rodney Street, 1 x white unbranded bag

14:56 - 52 Rodney Street, 1 x white unbranded bag

14:59 - Rodney Street outside HSBC, 1 x Emmersons bag

15:03 - Hardman Street outside Subway, 2 x Subway bags

15:06 - Maryland Street, 1 x white unbranded bag

15:12 - Mount Pleasant outside LJMU John Foster Building, 1 x Tesco bag & 1 x Boots bag

15:15 - Mount Pleasant outside LJMU Rodney House, 1 x Tesco bag

15:18 - Mount Pleasant, 1 x Home Bargains bag

15:19 - Mount Pleasant outside old YMCA building, 1 x Londis bag

17:02 - Paradise Street in Liverpool One, 1 x Argos bag

17:13 - Liverpool Lime Street station entrance, 1 x Marks & Spencer bag

Brief..

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For the URBAN/ECOLOGY project in Liverpool, ArtYarn propose to deliver two projects; ‘Recycled Plastic Bag Bombing’ and a ‘public knitting circle’.

‘Recycled Plastic Bag Bombing’

Artyarn will perform a series of interventions in Liverpool city centre, ‘tagging’ street furniture with pieces of knitting made from recycled plastic carrier bags.

Over several visits to Liverpool city centre ArtYarn will embark on a series of one day visits to the streets of Liverpool to collect discarded plastic carrier bags from public spaces and inner city wasteland areas.
Each bag found and retrieved from a site will be documented and mapped to draw awareness of littering of this particular material on the streets of Liverpool.

Once a sufficient amount of bags have been collected, the found bags will be cleaned and shredded to form a recycled yarn for which new art works will be made by hand knitting.

By referring back to the mapping document created on retrieval of the found plastic carrier bags, ArtYarn will replace the bags, now in a knitted art form, into the environments they were found which have the highest volume of plastic carrier bag littering and waste.

The aim of this intervention is to draw awareness to the amount of plastic carrier bag waste and littering in this city centre environment, to promote the issues of recycling this material and to create an alternate use of disposable materials in a contemporary arts and crafts context.