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Running head: THE WASTE LAND PROJECT 1
Collaboration on Social Concerns: The Wasteland Project by Vik Muniz
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THE WASTE LAND PROJECT 2
Collaboration on Social Concerns: The Wasteland Project by Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz’s art work, known as the Wasteland Project, comes out more as a
collaboration between the participants, and the social issues concerns highlighted in the
documentary, as opposed to the images themselves also shown in the film. According to
Moakley (2011), since the mid-1990s, Muniz has formed a reputation not only for his critically
acclaimed appropriations of iconic figures like Jackson Pollack, but also the portrayal of social
issues, for instance in his famous art, “Sugar Children” that highlights the plight child laborers
and the negative side of child labor (Moakley, 2011). In this art, Muniz contemplates the future
of this children as cane field workers. A similar amount of consciousness is also evident in the
Oscar-nominated film Waste Land by Muniz.
Even though the film begins by highlighting Muniz’s journey as he returns home to his
family in Brazil, where he reveals about the world’s biggest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho,
the film gradually transitions to and focuses on the interminable toil of the catadores. Muniz tries
to explain that despite the kind of job that these small band of garbage collectors engage in,
separating recyclable materials, they are underpaid and work in very deplorable conditions
(Walker, 2011). According to Muniz, this portrayal is not socially acceptable and calls to change.
In his own words, Muniz explains, “These people are at the other end of consumer culture.”
(Moakley, 2011). Apart from just images, Muniz also captures how the humanity of these
marginalized persons has been stepped on, through heartbreaking interviews and scenes. In one
of the scenes for instance, Muniz shows how food is prepared at the dump from reclaimed food.
Additionally, as Moakley (2011), explains, Muniz has earlier on planned to paint his
portraits with garbage, but instead chose to collaborate with the catadores in creating enormous
photographs of every person from the dump materials. Instead of just focusing on the images and

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Running head: THE WASTE LAND PROJECT Collaboration on Social Concerns: The Wasteland Project by Vik Muniz Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation 1 THE WASTE LAND PROJECT 2 Collaboration on Social Concerns: The Wasteland Project by Vik Muniz Vik Muniz’s art work, known as the Wasteland Project, comes out more as a collaboration between the participants, and the social issues concerns highlighted in the documentary, as opposed to the images themselves also shown in the film. According to Moakley (2011), since the mid-1990s, Muniz has formed a reputation not only for his critically acclaimed appropriations of iconic figures like Jackson Pollack, but also the portrayal of social issues, for instance in his famous art, “Sugar Children” that highlights the plight child laborers and the negative side of child labor (Moakley, 2011). In this art, Muniz contemplates the future of this children as cane field workers. A similar amount of consciousness is also evident in the Oscar-nominated film Waste Land by Muniz. Even though the film begins by highlighting Muniz’s journey as he returns home to his family in Brazil, where he reveals about the world’s biggest garbage dump, ...
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