Brooklyn-based artist Gertrude Berg plays with trash

Carrie McLaren is a guest blogger at Boing Boing and coauthor of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. She lives in Brooklyn, the former home of her now defunct Stay Free! magazine.

I do a "useless lectures" series in Brooklyn, Adult Education, and one of my favorite talks last year was by the delightfully peculiar artist Gertrude Berg. Here are a couple of short films of her doing her thing: In "Waste Carrier," she stores the trash that she uses during the day in a specially designed dress that she wears all over town. In "Pick Up Artist," well, you just have to watch...

Carrie McLaren & Jason Torchinsky are coeditors of _Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture_. In previous lives, they worked together on the hopelessly obscure and now defunct Stay Free! magazine. He lives in LA and writes for the Onio

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Anonymous

Everyone in Toronto is doing this now.
(There’s a garbage collection strike.)
Drabula

Wholly inconsequential and dull. Makes us other artists who send interesting things to boingboing and routinely get ignored wonder who you have to know to get a post.
Daemon

I want that much storage space in an outfit.
Anonymous

I will only consider this artful if she poops in the bag.