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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
In terms of the battle against ad creep... this blog features the efforts of a group in Toronto that seeks to have illegal ads and billboards removed from the streets of Toronto: illegalsigns.ca
Rather than engage in playful detournment, he is actually working the system to get illegal billboards removed. To me, this is much more effective in terms of real impact (tm).
(note: the placement of illegal and non-conforming billboards in Toronto is rampant)
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I'm all for that. I'm all for creating laws that restrict how advertisements are placed all over the place here in NYC. Recently MTA filled the subway stations with massive amounts of advertisements to help budget shortfalls. I'm surprised that they don't start wrapping the trains like they do the buses.
In the city it's all noise, all noise trying to get out over the noise. So you culture jam something, you're just making more noise.
When they drape buildings some people don't get compensated for losing their windows, so they cut out window holes. One beer company made a play on it in Times Square stating they won something and you could see them drinking the beer in the window cutout.
NYC has wheatpaste problems where people post bills all over the place, even when it's posted to state "Post No Bills". Guerilla marketers staple hip hop record releases on street poles. These are all illegal and should be dealt with legally, not via vandalism.
Last year there was a "culture jammer" who was splashing all the graffitti art around the city. The graffitti group was all up in arms over it. Umm, hello, you're not in private space like a gallery, the wall you painted on isn't YOUR wall. The splasher splashed paint on many "old" and timeless graffitti spots. So who's right? The graffitti guys? The splasher? IMO, both of them are wrong since there shouldn't have been graffitti there in the first place.
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I'm fuckin pissed about the recent destruction of some one of a kind art. I dont care to discuss the nature of pasting or painting on someone else's property, at the moment. I do want to address the nature of someone's supposed politics in the actions seen above. There is a person or group of people that seem to think that they are the vanguard of some imaginary "movement" that is critiquing street art. Their tactics are to destroy what they find as the commodification of graffiti. Well my friend you are now just part of the fad, one that has been slowly passing. Then you broke a bottle and wanted to gain some attention of your own. Now you are submitting work to the banality that you exclaim to be rampant in street art. It is now time for you to go off and die in some dark corner of a bookstore, next to copies of subway art and the art of getting over. The trite you explain as "manifesto" is utter bullshit. and I will say for this fundamental reason.
The image that you destroyed above is of a woman that is involved in a TRUE struggle for autonomy and liberation from Capital. This portrait made of a woman who lives in Oaxaca is being used to raise consciousness about the uprising and movement of the APPO, (Popular Assembly for the People of Oaxaca). Some prints of this were recently returned to the women in their villages, and pasted up (I dare you to travel there and splash paint on them) The point is that you as a viewer reduce the image to be something to consumed and not something of beauty or of something to learn from. YOU decontextualize them and make them into nothing. Just like your actions have become. I look forward to the further attention your actions will recieve from the history makers at the NY Times this sunday, it will be YOU, and your actions that will be turned into just another movement. And consumed you are, one dollar an issue,read online for free or at a coffee shop.
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