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Garbage Kids is a creative collective based in Tbilisi, Georgia. With a background in architecture, we are currently focusing on object-oriented creations. A lot of our thinking comes from frustration with the society that aims towards endless growth in conditions of limited resources. Systems that encourage overconsumption contribute to the temporary and one-off – garbage mounds are growing, inequality is increasing, species are disappearing, and a tedious global singularity is spreading in its place.

Instead we learn from peasant wisdom, creating collectables, for which they mainly use scrap materials - branches broken in a storm, stones from abandoned quarries, leftover timber from construction or demolitions, invasive species etc. As a collective, we combine manual skills and knowledge from both Estonia and Georgia resulting in a vernacular mix of playfulness and stubbornness.

The Garbage Kids practice can be described as attempting to transfer inherited meanings (forms, concepts and vision) prevalent in historic and prehistoric art, as a series of analogies and fictions, attempting to be succinct in form.

Garbage Kids is Nika Gabiskiria, Ulla Alla and Luka Abashidze.

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Ulla

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Nika

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Luka

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