Barbara Hashimoto: The Junk Mail Experiment

Barbara Hashimoto: The Junk Mail ExperimentThe Junk Mail Experiment is a multi disciplinary visual and performance based project lead by artist Barbara Hashimoto. Hashimoto embarked on the project in June 2007, committing to collect and hand shred the junk mail delivered to her studio address for a one year period, amassing more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material. The artists labor intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and

The Junk Mail Experiment is a multi-disciplinary visual and performance-based project lead by artist Barbara Hashimoto. Hashimoto embarked on the project in June 2007, committing to collect and hand-shred the junk mail delivered to her studio address for a one-year period, amassing more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material. The artistÕs labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations. This catalogue, with an essay by Collette Chattopadhyay, photography by Shelley Anderson, Archie FlorCruz, Kobodesign, Ron Reason, Eric Young Smith, and EK Waller, and video stills by Eric Hoffhines, was published in autumn 2009 on the occasion of two concurrent exhibitions of The Junk Mail Experiment -- at the MusŽe du Montparnasse, Paris and Dubhe Carre–o Gallery, Chicago.