the cart department

The Cart Department was a loose collective of performance artists, slime-molds, teddy-bears, and other creatures with a home base of New York City, active from 2018 – 2020. The collective organized (not)happenings and (anti)talent shows on the streets and subways of NYC on a regular basis during this time period and explored together the potential of parades of elaborate trash sculptures built in shopping carts as counter-normative non-instruments. Membership of The Cart Department was loose and always open to all who embodied a desire to see a world where there could be more beings pushing carts full of noisy, rustydusty, smellhung, heavyfeather curiosities through the streets. Core, founding members who came together to not organize The Greatest Cart in the World Pageant included –Enormous Face, Fancy Frog, Rip Darlie, Jimmy Sweet, Human Juices, Papo Cucaracha Vertedero El Tercero, and Huge Sillytoe.

Photos: Ivana Casanova and Alex Webb.