Join The Dusty Road for an interactive, comedic and ethereal wandering into consumerism inside a transformed warehouse space where a sculpture of broken furniture pieces sits high in the centre of the room. Participants are invited to contribute to the evolving exhibition by deconstructing the installation and recreating conceptual, if not functional, furniture pieces to create Aeki Breaky: a reimagining of things that have fallen apart.
This interactive exhibition uses comedy and satire to explore the fundamental flaws of the fast furniture industry and throw away culture, bringing to light our ethics and our accountability to objects, and attempts to reconfigure how we think about waste. This is an entertaining opportunity to repent our consumerist past and impulsive fast furniture sins, reconnect to the meaning and the making of things, tactility, creativity and the stories we create together. A literal reimagining of “fast furniture” by way of collective speed making.
The exhibition will evolve with audience participation into conceptual furniture pieces made out of the original hard rubbish installation.
Participants
Paige Miller, The Dusty Road
Paige Miller creator of The Dusty Road is a lover of furniture upholstery with a decade of experience, and crazy passion for the trade. Invested in its preservation, industry change, as well as building appreciation around the value of “slow furniture” vs “fast furniture”. She has a unique approach to upholstery that is collaborative, fun and creative with the intent that experience is as memorable as the pieces that The Dusty Road creates. A colour enthusiast, that’s not afraid to experiment, have fun and use humour but always with quality craftsmanship in mind. Making pieces that are for a long time, not just a good time. At The Dusty Road it’s all about the journey, and she loves working with people who appreciate that the process is as important as the finished product. Injecting story and sentiment is an important part of that journey for the future of sustainability.
Join The Dusty Road for an interactive, comedic and ethereal wandering into consumerism inside a transformed warehouse space where a sculpture of broken furniture pieces sits high in the centre of the room. Participants are invited to contribute to the evolving exhibition by deconstructing the installation and recreating conceptual, if not functional, furniture pieces to create Aeki Breaky: a reimagining of things that have fallen apart.
This interactive exhibition uses comedy and satire to explore the fundamental flaws of the fast furniture industry and throw away culture, bringing to light our ethics and our accountability to objects, and attempts to reconfigure how we think about waste. This is an entertaining opportunity to repent our consumerist past and impulsive fast furniture sins, reconnect to the meaning and the making of things, tactility, creativity and the stories we create together. A literal reimagining of “fast furniture” by way of collective speed making.
The exhibition will evolve with audience participation into conceptual furniture pieces made out of the original hard rubbish installation.
Participants
Paige Miller, The Dusty Road
Paige Miller creator of The Dusty Road is a lover of furniture upholstery with a decade of experience, and crazy passion for the trade. Invested in its preservation, industry change, as well as building appreciation around the value of “slow furniture” vs “fast furniture”. She has a unique approach to upholstery that is collaborative, fun and creative with the intent that experience is as memorable as the pieces that The Dusty Road creates. A colour enthusiast, that’s not afraid to experiment, have fun and use humour but always with quality craftsmanship in mind. Making pieces that are for a long time, not just a good time. At The Dusty Road it’s all about the journey, and she loves working with people who appreciate that the process is as important as the finished product. Injecting story and sentiment is an important part of that journey for the future of sustainability.
