Independent creative collective The Glue Society set up a rather interesting installation for the Adelaide Festival of Ideas: a fruit market filled with rotting produce.
Titled ‘More Than Ten Items Or Less’, the project called attention to the amount of food wastage amassed by Australian households every year. The queer fruit stall was left untended over the four-day course of the festival, and patrons could only look through the windows to see trays upon trays of rotting fruits and vegetables.
The amount of food in the store was equivalent to the food wastage by an average Australian household in a year. “The purpose of the installation is to kickstart and foster a debate about the issue of food wastage, which is particularly endemic in Australia,” said artist James Dive.
[via Creative Review]