The Pop Bottle Car 饮料瓶汽车

THE POP BOTTLE CAR: A collaboration with artist Doug Lewis and the grade 9 students at Canadian International School Beijing.

饮料瓶汽车－与北京加拿大国际学校艺术家Doug Lewis和他的9年级学生们的合作

By Doug Lewis. Chinese Translation by Juliet.

I started working with pop-bottles last year for the sheer enjoyment of it. Truth be know, because they were free and readily available, not because I was making recycling-based art.

My initial idea of pop bottles as ‘pop-art’ created by youth -- the most targeted consumers and future producers of pop culture -- makes the bottles a perfect object-as-metaphor.

I am the middle/high art teacher at CISB where soda pop and popular culture are both a major consumption.

我用饮料瓶子搞创作是去年开始的，当时纯粹是兴趣使然。老实说，并不是因为我立意要做环保回收艺术，而是因为它们既不用花钱又随处可得。我的初衷是用饮料瓶诠释“波普文化”。现在的年轻人正在或即将成为文化的制造者和消费者，饮料瓶成为一种完美的比喻载体。作为北京加拿大国际学校的中高年级艺术老师，波普和流行文化是我的一个阐释要点。

I learned of Greening the Beige last year from a colleague that was involved . I was asked if I was interested in contributing some of my work to their fundraiser.

Last year’s pop-bottle based work taught me to put earth as a perfunctory concern in how I think about art making. Further, that working with my students presented an opportunity that we could explore environmental and cultural issues together.

我是去年从一个同事那里了解到“点废成绿”组织的。同事参与了它的活动，问到我是否有兴趣捐献一些作品用于募捐。去年的创作就是以饮料瓶为原材料，这使得我在对艺术创作的思考中有了一份对地球肤浅的感悟。并且，和学生们一起工作让我们有机会共同探索这个课题。

The Pop Bottle Project showed at Yugong Yishan and CISB students were noted as complete collaborators of the project, as it was their consumption of pop that helped make the work.

饮料瓶项目曾经在“点废成绿”在愚公移山举办的募捐活动中做过展示，并注明北京加拿大国际学校的学生们是项目的全程协作者，因为作品所用的饮料瓶是他们用下来的。

The making of this year’s Pop Bottle Car is a work that is in constant progress by students of CISB .

Through their everyday consumption of pop drinks this time, too, but the difference being that the students are collecting, cleaning and designing most everything: all classrooms of the school bring their bottles every morning to the art room.

During lunches detention-recipients (voluntarily) disinfect the pop-bottles, my art students (grade 9 predominantly) form the plastic into car parts by also using bamboo for the architecture.

They will be continuing to do so throughout the 2009/10 year and at year-end, the bottles will be given to someone that can use them for income completing the project.

今年的饮料瓶汽车是一个由北京加拿大国际学校的学生们逐步完成的作品，原材料仍然来自于他们每天都在消费的瓶装饮料。所不同的是，这次的饮料瓶收集、清洁和设计工作几乎全部由学生自己完成：全校各个班的同学们每天上午都往艺术教室里交瓶子。午餐间隙，义务值守生负责给瓶子消毒，艺术课的学生们（主要是9年级学生）把它们做成汽车的各个部件，结构部分要用到一些竹子。他们将坚持把这件事情从2009年一直做到2010年。到2010年底，把这些瓶子卖掉换来收入，项目才算结束。

The students were made aware of specific concepts:

- Pop-art is about popular culture

- Plastics are made by low-grade crude oil, oil not entirely different than what gasoline is made from, thus they both produce green house gas emissions

-Recycling bottles is an artistic form of an advertisement for recycling

- Pop bottles are worth money

学生们可以从项目中得到这样一些具体概念：

－波普艺术是关于流行文化的；

－塑料是由低等原油制成，这种油与汽油提取原料并无本质不同，都能排放温室气体；

－瓶子再循环是在用艺术形式为环保回收做广告；

－饮料瓶是可以卖钱的。

By Doug Lewis. Chinese Translation by Juliet.