Mathew and I will be presenting our new info posters about the future and past of waste management this Sunday at Portland Stock. They’ll be 9 other artists hoping to have their project selected to receive the proceeds from the nights dinner. It’s a great way to eat a delicious $10 meal and give the money to a local project.
Dinner is $10 at the Pacific Northwest College of Art at 1241 NW Johnson and NW 12th Ave at 6pm this Sunday.
Attendees can read short summaries of the projects and ask any questions they want of the artists. Every diner gets a vote for $10 and the majority determines who gets the funds. Obviously there’s a lot of motivation to stack the deck by sending all our friends to show up and you can but you have to RSVP pronto since space and food are finite (on this reality plane).
RSVP pronto to portlandstock@gmail.com. People sending RSVPs after Tuesday or Wednesday might not make the list for dinner seating and will be instead invited to sit in the $5 peanut gallery (meaning they can vote but don’t get dinner).
Or Eat & Vote for Free by Volunteering: If you (or your friends) are interested in volunteering to help set up, clean up, or cook, please let Portland Stock know. Volunteers eat and vote for free!
for those interested here’s our proposal:
1. Project Summary: (100 words)
Every time it rains in Portland we participate in a “system” officially known as C.S.O., Combined Sewage Overflow. It’s an engineeringy acronym for what we prefer to call S.I.R., Shitting In Rivers, a form of ideocy dating back before Roman times. We have created a series of six posters illustrating current waste management practices (like S.I.R) and simple, cheap, science-based alternatives. We’re seeking money to create a revolving print fund so we can produce and distribute our posters, with sales feeding back in to the fund.
2. How will you use the funding toward the realization of your project? (50 words)
We will print 6 posters designed for bathroom reading and sell them at a cost that will cover public postings and additional print runs in perpetuity. Posters: Portland’s sewage system, Portland’s composting system, decomposition on an ecosystem and molecular level, neighborhood biological waste processing greenhouses, and clever animals that compost.
3. How will it manifest at the next Stock event? (100 words):
We will have printed the posters and distributed them around town using a guerrilla network of school teachers, public employees, artists and activists including Recode, Phlush, City Repair, Red & Black Cafe , Black Rose, Laughing Horse, North Star, Autonomy Hive, and Research Club. We will put them in mundane bathrooms, radical spaces, book stores, and semi-legal waste-management sites. We will also be, hopefully, on our way towards online sales.
4. Why is this project important? (100 words)
We feel the best way to inspire change is to spread info-rich graphics backed up by an alternative system of infrastructure that people can easily participate in. We are actively prototyping networked compost monitoring and urine/capture and re-use systems. Our goal is to initiate a distributed system of independently run and electronically monitored compost piles and collectors that rapidly and efficiently transform the bulk of our human and municipal waste into verified, pathogen-free soil with a minimum of attention and area. To do that we need ramp up excitement and understanding amongst Portlanders.
F*ck apathy, deal with your sh*t!
