THE RUBBISH PUPPETEERS ZINE

The Rubbish Puppeteers comprises of images of the duo’s Fly Tip Theatre puppets, which were mutant creations made by Paul and BÄST’s shared love of puppets as kids. Without experience in traditional puppet making, they crafted the puppets from found and recycled materials over a period of close to 10 years, with characters often referencing music and graffiti culture and personas based loosely on celebrities, cartoons or those observed while people watched. 

The book shows many of the random videos, stop motions, paintings, costumes, performance works and puppets the duo made mostly from rubbish found on the street between the years of 2012 and 2021. The puppets were all glued and stapled together quickly, strung up and then filmed dancing about. They were driven by wanting to make work inspired by their environments and passions, but something different from what was usually made in their respective studios. 

• Artwork and Photography: Paul Insect and Bäst Estate
  
• 8.5 x 5.5 in
• First Edition, Limited Edition of 1000
• Published in 2019 by Beyond the Streets