Come Up To My Room
Friday JANUARY. 27 to 29, 2012
As part of the Design Week Toronto 2012, The Fugitive Glue Collective presented the story of an every day object – a ubiquitous 20 pound barbecue cylinder, and how it can be re-purposed for public benefit. The project spotlighted the new term “up-hoarding”, which describes part of the methodology of creating, amongst others, a light fixture from decommissioned barbecue tanks.

Saturday 28 January, 2012: The night of the official opening. At least 600 people walked through the exhibit.

Come Up To My Room
Images by Agata Piskunowicz, courtesy of Gladstone Hotel.

As part of the Design Week Toronto, The Fugitive Glue Collective presented the story of an every day object – a ubiquitous 20-pound barbecue cylinder, and how it can be re-purposed for public benefit. The project spotlighted the term “up-hoarding”, which describes the methodology of Fugitive Glue.

This is what TORONTO LIFE ONLINE said about it COME UP TO MY ROOM.

“Gas tanks aren’t sexy, but the way Fugitive Glue has arranged and displayed these rusting canisters as though they’re objects of desire almost makes us wish we could have a couple to fashion our own DIY coffee or side tables.”

torontoist.com
“Even mundane objects have a story—a design, a production process, an afterlife. Uphoarding explores the lifecycle of the very ordinary propane tank—and the environmental implications of the equally ordinary backyard barbeque in the process.”
Corbin Smith/Torontoist 29 January, 2012