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"VOTE JUNK" a collaborative project by Hannah Terry, Gemma Budden and Martina Ziewe.

 

"VOTE JUNK"is an ongoing collaborative project, involving investigation, performance and installation, where the stuff of junkyards, charity shops and the streets is cyphered into unexpected outcomes.

The first chapter of the project took place over a 10 month period in the Kingston, Surbiton area in Surrey. From July 2004 through to April 2005 the collaborating artists Hannah Terry and Gemma Budden collected all the stuff that the local Oxfam could not sell and had to pay to get collected by the council, as rubbish.  This collection extended to include furniture from a recently gutted house in the neighbourhood. The artists rented