Mundano: Trash cart superheroes
Mundano: Mundano: Sredite moja kolica?
Mundano's bold, colorful street art isn't just eye candy. His projects call attention to social, environmental and political issues, while raising chuckles from passersby. Full bio
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all superpowers: invisibility.
nevidljivost.
materials for a living.
materijale kako bi preživjeli.
social inequality, unemployment,
društvene nejednakosti, nezaposlenosti
waste collection system.
sustava za sakupljanja otpada.
honest and essential work
pošten i bitan posao
But they are not acknowledged for it.
Ali im nitko za to ne odaje priznanje.
of all the waste that's actually recycled.
svog otpada koji se reciklira.
selling to junk yards at very low prices.
reciklažnim dvorištima jako jeftino.
bicycles and carroças.
biciklima i kolicima.
built from wood or metal
od drveta i metala
marginalized superheroes.
ovim marginaliziranim superherojima.
and political in nature.
ekološka i politička.
and onto the carroças,
i stavio ih na "carroças",
giving voice to the catadores.
dajući glas skupljačima.
it became more appealing,
postalo je privlačnije.
to the catadores
na skupljače
on the streets, on mass media and social.
ulicama, u masovnim i društvenim medijima.
and have not stopped working since.
i od tada nisam prestao s radom.
carroças in many cities
u mnogim gradovima
and trips worldwide.
širom svijeta.
in their invisibility,
u svojoj nenametljivosti
as the United States and Japan.
poput SAD-a i Japana.
to have more people join the cause
koji će se priključiti svrsi
movement called Pimp My Carroça --
pokret nazvan "Sredi moja kolica" --
a large crowdfunded event.
događanje financirano od strane sudionika.
crowdfunded event
crowdfunding događanje
i njihovim kolicima.
professionals and healthcare,
za njegu i medicinu,
hair stylists, massage therapists
frizera, masera
gloves, raincoats and eyeglasses
rukavice, kabanice i naočale
by our incredible volunteers.
naši nevjerojatni volonteri.
oslikavanje uličnog umjetnika
amazing mobile art exhibition.
pokretne, nevjerojatne umjetničke izložbe.
São Paula, Rio de Janeira i Curitibe.
of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba.
including outside of Brazil,
gradova, uključujući i one izvan Brazila,
which is inspired by TEDx,
koji je inspiriran TEDx-om,
u stilu 'uradi sam'
crowdfunded edition of Pimp My Carroça.
"Sredi moja kolica".
800 volunteers and 200 street artists
800 volontera i 200 uličnih umjetnika
Pimp My Carroça movement,
pokret,
in teaching recycling at a local school.
kako bi se podučavalo recikliranje.
invisibility behind
iza sebe
respected and valued.
they are able to fight back to prejudice,
mogu se boriti protiv predrasuda,
their interaction with society.
i svoj kontakt s društvom.
to start looking at and acknowledging
da počnete gledati i uvažavati
invisible superheroes from your city.
iz vašeg grada.
without boundaries or frontiers.
bez granica.
catadores worldwide.
preko 20 milijuna skupljača.
of our society.
našeg društva.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mundano - Graffiti artist + activistMundano's bold, colorful street art isn't just eye candy. His projects call attention to social, environmental and political issues, while raising chuckles from passersby.
Why you should listen
Mundano is a Brazilian street artist and activist whose work makes people stop and think about the issues swirling around them everyday. In 2007, he began using his graffiti skills to paint "carroças," the wooden and metal carts used by the trash collectors throughout Brazil who haul off junk and recyclables. He painted 200 carroças and in the process made these invisible superheroes visible—not only in the streets, but also in the media. The effort led to "Pimp My Carroça," which made this initiative do-it-yourself, crowdfunded and global. It has brought in 170 trash collectors in cities around the world, teaming them up with 200 street artists and 800 volunteers. It is quickly becoming a movement.
At home in Brazil, Mundano works on other projects too. Since 2008, he has used the posters and banners that plaster Brazilian cities during elections to create thought-provoking art. For the election in 2014, he turned these enormous plastic banners into a giant voting booth filled with waste in a square in Rio de Janeiro. "I use these ads to get people to reflect on the corrupted political system. On all the false promises, and all the awful waste," he explains.
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