Recyklör - Imagined Community
Exhibition runs: 12 - 17 November 2019
Recyklör is an international art collective founded in Melbourne, Australia with contributors the world over including, South America, Europe, South East Asia and The Middle East.
Recyklör’s key objective is threefold in nature. To ensure the betterment of the environment, to incite cultural change that helps those in need and to bring joy to the world through creative ideation; All of which are executed through the power of art and innovation.
The event is named after Benedict Anderson’s sociological theory of the Imagined Community; Which expounds that communities are constructed as a unit based on the perception of those individuals believing that they are part of one group; Bound together by a common cause, ideology or perceived “oneness”.
While Anderson used this to describe the nationalistic sentiments of his day, Recyklör aims to use the theory to show that strangers have more in common than they realise. Regardless of heritage, up-bringing or political ideology; popular culture and human experience both allow for opportunities of closeness and community despite initial unfamiliarity.
Recyklör hopes the art exhibited makes attendees laugh, go “ah-hah” and even provide an opportunity for social interaction. A welcome change in today’s divisive climate.
This exhibition aims to raise funds for a small charity located in Medellin, Colombia called Las Hermanas Misioneras De La Comunidad Cristiana. An organisation run by nuns who have dedicated their lives to the embetterment of their community’s most vulnerable; including the poor, the aged, vulnerable children and struggling single mothers with no other recourse.
Recyklör Charity Event
Friday 15 November
6-10pm / $10