Catalogue published in conjunction with the project and travelling exhibition 'Waste Not' by Song Dong. It features an enormous installation consisting of over ten thousand daily objects collected by artist Song Dong's mother, Zhao Xiangyuan. Included in the book are detailed accounts of the objects selected for the installation, written by Zhao and edited by Wu Hung.

Alternative title

Wu jin qi yong zhao xiang yuan he song dong

Access level

Onsite

Location code
MON.SOD
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2009

No of pages

188

ISBN / ISSN

9784904149027

No of copies

2

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

Part One

About Waste Not: Things, Memory, and Family Ethics

Healing through Remembering

The Materials

The Project

The Exhibition

Communicating Memories

Contextualizing Waste Not

Family Ethics

Rediscovering the Family

Coda


Part Two

Zhao Xiangyuan: Waste Not

Clothes (Yi)

Eat (Shi)

Live (Zhu)

Use (Yong)

Appendices

An Interview with Song Dong, by Christina Yu

Interview with Song Dong by the journal Contemporary Artists after the Sixth Gwangju Biennale in 2006

Yet Another Exhibition I Saw at 798

Waste Not: A Very Moving Exhibition

Waste Not: Zhao Xiangyuan & Song Dong
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