page_title: Garbage Patch State
section_title: Installations
hierarchical_section_title: Garbage Patch State / Installations
caption_attribution_description: English: Founding of the Garbage Patch State at UNESCO Paris
context_page_description: The Garbage Patch State – Wasteland is an ongoing transmedia, environmental artwork by Maria Cristina Finucci. The project aims to raise awareness about the environmental hazard of the Great Pacific garbage patch caused by the dispersion of plastic debris in the oceans. Installations, performances, videos have been carried out under the patronage of UNESCO and the Italian Ministry of the Environment.
context_section_description: Paris UNESCO: 11 April 2013
  Venice Biennale: 12 April 2013
  Madrid ARCO: 18 February 2014
  Rome MAXXI: 11 April 2014
  New York UNHQ: 29 September 2014
  Geneva UNOG: 29 June 2015 for World Environment Day celebrations
  Milan EXPO: 15 June 2015
  Venice BLUEMED: 16 October 2015
  Paris COP21: 30 November 2015
  Palermo UNIPA: 11 April 2016
  Mozia, Sicily: 25 September 2016
  Roman Forum, Rome: 8 June - 29 July 2018, HELP the Ocean
caption: Founding of the Garbage Patch State at UNESCO Paris
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