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GARBAGIA

We invite you to share a retrospective of Garbagia's universe for the past eight years, inspired and celebrating artist Rolando Politi’s imagined world Garbagia. 

Garbagia Project, born in 2016, is a community art program hosted at the Loisaida Center where the community manifests their ideas about how society relates to trash and overconsumption through costume making and performance. Daniela Fabrizi led this project from 2016 to 2019, she served as studio manager of Textiles Art for the Loisaida Festival and co-founded its Garbagia Project, inspired by sustainability, resilience, environmental awareness, and creative reuse as a tool for social change.

During this year's iteration of the Garbagia Project, Daniela's participation in Art in Odd Places 2023: DRESS she examines clothing production and colonialism, fast fashion and waste, transformation and gender identity (and intolerance), cultural identity, work and labor, censorship, the passage of time and its traces, beauty, disability, status, armor, joy and grief.

Performance Schedule

Friday, October 13^th

Q&A from 6:00 – 7:30 PM

LGBTQIA+ Center

208 West 13^th Street

Saturday, October 14^th

Performance from 3 - 6 PM

On 14^th Street, Nearby Union Square

Sunday, October 15^th

Performance from 3 – 7 PM

On 14^th Street, Nearby the Hudson River

Everyday we get dressed. Our clothing communicates information about our work, activities and aspirations. Dress can be prescribed or intentionally personal. It can be practical, protecting our bodies from the weather or worksite; or fanciful, making a statement. We dress to provoke, to go unnoticed, to align with a social group, to conform (whether by choice or requirement), to challenge, to fit in, to be admired, to aspire, to protest, and to express identity. How do you know what people do for a living, how recently they’ve come to this country, if they are tourists? We regard each other and make judgements about gender, class, work, lifestyle, social group, and cultural heritage based on appearance.

Art in Odd Places 2023: DRESS is curated by Gretchen Vitamvas with Curational Assistant: Tasha Douge. Curational Manager: Sarah Starpoli. artinoddplaces.org

Founded in 1979, Loisaida, Inc. offers year-round, accessible arts & culture programming that celebrates the rich heritage of the Lower East Side and its Puerto Rican and immigrant communities. Through its multi-purpose space, the Loisaida Inc. Center provides opportunities to emerging artists and creators working in diverse disciplines, promotes a vibrant social and community life, and serves as an incubator for self-sustainable initiatives.

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