SALVAGE
Conversations with artists who use repurposed materials in their art practice.
SALVAGE is a podcast that celebrates creativity and sustainability through conversations with artists who turn discarded materials into powerful works of art. Each episode dives into their stories, techniques, and the deeper messages behind their work, showing how art can transform waste into beauty and inspire action against overconsumption and wastefulness.
It’s a space for exploring how creativity and mindfulness can help us reimagine our relationship with the planet—one repurposed piece at a time.
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SALVAGE
Conversation with Bryan Northup
Please enjoy my conversation with Bryan Northup. Bryan’s work responds to human interactions with a uniquely modern material - plastic. Using collected single-use plastic and found objects from the waste stream as art medium, he attempts to blur the lines between appetizing consumables, biological dissection and everyday "waste", to explore layers of meaning in an age where toxic materials of our own creation have saturated our environment and penetrated our species—both biologically and culturally—to the cellular level.
Bryan reacts to modern consumer-saturated society, and processes his own environmental/climate despair by drawing attention to the role plastic production and dependence plays in the global climate crisis. Bryan’s sculpture and wall relief works depict abstracted glimpses of microscopic cell interactions, molecular-level contamination, a cross-section of interconnectedness, in an attempt to imagine how this human-made material interacts with living systems at the deepest level.
https://www.oakparkartleague.org/
International Museum of Surgical Science https://imss.org/
Trashion Revolution https://triveniinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/TrashionRevolution2024PressRelease.pdf
Museum of Science and Industry https://www.msichicago.org/
https://care.artinoddplaces.org/
https://www.postcards.visualaids.org/
This podcast was created by Natalya Khorover. It was produced and recorded by Natalya, as well as researched and edited by her. SALVAGE is a product of ECOLOOP.ART.
If you enjoy this show, please rate and review us wherever you’re listening—and be sure to come back for another conversation with a repurposed media artist.
Music theme by RC Guida
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