Process artists made decay and trash into gallery objects

Evidence

As the concoction, exhibited at the Bykert Gallery, fermented it grew increasingly moldy and offensively aromatic. Matta-Clarke also took process art into the street. Among his earliest contributions to SoHo’s most radical gallery, 112 Greene, was Garbage Wall, which fashioned an architectural form (and performance area) out of a mound of compressed trash. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1627

Categorization

• SEED: Garbage Wall as artists repurposing urban detritus could feed an essay about how avant-garde reuse of cheap/trash materials mapped onto SoHo’s eventual real-estate value.
• XREF: connects to: Art capitulates when it purges all trace of its pre-artistic, vulgar roots — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2721