These wooden structures, donated by The Walnut Street Theatre, were once the flooring support for many of their Mainstage season shows.  Now they have a new life in the local performance art series, Garbage World.

 Garbage World is the realization of Eileen Lillian Doyle’s vision for a performance series that allows artists to showcase performance art with minimal restrictions.  This July 26 and 27 Garbage World 7 will be at Little Berlin (2430 Coral St, Philadelphia PA, 19125).  Needing to make walls and support structures for the exhibition, Eileen came into The Resource Exchange and picked up the decking from The Walnut and some sheets of luan that were donated by a recent television show shoot.  She covered the decking in the sheets of luan to build the exhibition walls.

Eileen has been curating Garbage World since 2009, when it was started in Chicago.  She says, “Overall, the principles behind The Resource Exchange inspired me to rethink how I’d plan exhibitions.  Part of my focus was on what would happen to materials after everything was taken down.  As an artist, I’ve been guilty of wasting a lot of materials and chucking things in the dumpster without much thought. For something of this scale, I cannot let myself be wasteful.”

Eileen says, “I found salvaged theater sets that were perfect for my plans.  It’s great that I’m now completing a cycle of reuse that also supports an organization that overall is keeping tons of materials out of the landfill.”  Eileen also plans on donating the materials that are used back to the Resource Exchange after the events!