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The Center for Urban Pedagogy’s People and Buildings Film Series

CUP / Trashy Pictures
Photo courtesy of CUP.

Saturday, May 15, 5PM

CUP will be screening two documentaries about the politics of NYC garbage disposal in the Gallery: the rare 1979 documentary, Collection and Disposal, a Job for the Birds, a window into the City’s garbage crisis, and CUP’s own Garbage Problems. Benjamin Miller, author of Fat of the Land, will speak on transport and garbage after the films.

 
Posted in Events by juliette on Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Exhibition

Organized by Juliette Spertus with Project Projects

Curatorial assistant: Jack McGrath

Exhibition and website design: Project Projects

Research: Juliette Spertus, Jack Conviser and Jack McGrath

Video: Gregory Whitmore

Photography: Kate Milford

Sponsors

Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC)

Envac AB

Roosevelt Island Historical Society (RIHS)

Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association (RIVAA)

Lamson Airtubes, LLC


Fiscal sponsor and educational programming

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)


Special thanks

NYC Dept. of Sanitation; Jerry Sorgente, DSNY; and Judith Berdy, RIHS

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