Mundano: Trash cart superheroes
Мундано: Хог цуглуулах тэргийг минь гангалаач...
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.
супер чадал бий.
хог хаягдал цуглуулж,
materials for a living.
social inequality, unemployment,
waste collection system.
honest and essential work
But they are not acknowledged for it.
of all the waste that's actually recycled.
бие даан ажилладаг.
selling to junk yards at very low prices.
bicycles and carroças.
хийсэн тэрэг юм.
built from wood or metal
харагддаг.
marginalized superheroes.
супер баатруудтай уулзсан юм.
мөн сайн дурын зүтгэлтэн.
and political in nature.
орчин,
and onto the carroças,
карроса дээр буусан.
өргөж байгаа юм.
giving voice to the catadores.
хошигнол нэмснээр,
it became more appealing,
to the catadores
дээшилсэн.
on the streets, on mass media and social.
мэдээлэл,
and have not stopped working since.
байгуулсан.
carroças in many cities
зураг зурж,
and trips worldwide.
олон газраар явсан.
дэлхийн хаана ч
in their invisibility,
үл үзэгдэх байдал
as the United States and Japan.
орнуудад таарсан.
илүү олон хүнийг
to have more people join the cause
гэж ойлгосон.
movement called Pimp My Carroça --
зохион байгуулсан.
a large crowdfunded event.
crowdfunded event
хөдөлгөөн маань
зорилготой
хөдөлгөөн.
professionals and healthcare,
эмч нар,
hair stylists, massage therapists
хүн үйлчилсэн.
gloves, raincoats and eyeglasses
by our incredible volunteers.
сигнал, толь зэрэг
суулгаж өгсөн.
тэрэгнүүдийг будаж,
amazing mobile art exhibition.
үзэсгэлэнгийн
of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba.
хотуудад зохиогдсон.
including outside of Brazil,
which is inspired by TEDx,
crowdfunded edition of Pimp My Carroça.
өөрсдийн хүрээнд
гаргасан.
нэгдэж болно.
800 volunteers and 200 street artists
уран бүтээлч,
оролцсон байна.
Pimp My Carroça movement,
in teaching recycling at a local school.
хүртэл заасан.
invisibility behind
амьдарч байгаа ч
respected and valued.
they are able to fight back to prejudice,
their interaction with society.
to start looking at and acknowledging
invisible superheroes from your city.
without boundaries or frontiers.
catadores worldwide.
харах юм бол
of our society.
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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