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DEBATE & POLEMIC

RAGE & REASON IN A WORLD OF MANIFESTOS

SUBCULTURES PT: 2

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SUBCULTURES - Pt.

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Conceptual AnarchyAn „artistic response‟?

Sex Pistols Imagery

+BANKSY

+BANKSY’S MANIFESTO“The people who run our cities don‟t understand graffiti because they think nothing has the

right to exist unless it makes a profit…. The people who truly deface our neighborhoods

are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us

feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff…. Any advertisement in public space that gives

you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you. It‟s yours to

take, rearrange and reuse. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone

just threw at your head….

+ “Is graffiti art or vandalism?” Banksy asks himself on

his official website. “That word has a lot of negative

connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don‟t like to

use the word „art‟ at all.”

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Banksy covertly adds his own works onto the walls of major museums in both the UK

and the US. He says: “The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group

create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred

people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a

tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...”

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“Some people want to make the world a better place. I just

wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t

like it, you can paint over it!”

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“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the

bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the

slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster

area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so

many to say so little”.

+ Banksy in the Streets

“Bus stops are far more

interesting and useful places to

have art than in museums.

Graffiti has more chance of

meaning something or changing

stuff than anything indoors.

Graffiti has been used to start

revolutions, stop wars, and

generally is the voice of people

who aren‟t listened to. Graffiti is

one of those few tools you have

if you have almost nothing. And

even if you don‟t come up with a

picture to cure world poverty you

can make somebody smile while

they‟re having a piss.”

+ Banksy on the West Bank

Braving threats and even

warning shots from Israeli

security forces, Banksy

managed to make a statement

through his works on the West

Bank barrier. Reactions were

mixed to his contributions to

the wall, but the coverage

certainly raised global

attention. This kind of work

shows the development of

Banksy from a local subversive

to an artist with a global

political agenda.

+ JR on the West Bank

Like Banksy, JR has something to say. Taking the idea of

„gallery work to the streets‟ to a new level. His wish is to use art

– to “turn the world inside out”.

+Urban Culture & Graffiti ArtThe Manifesto of JR

Like Banksy, JR has something to say.

Taking the idea of a „sidewalk gallery‟ to a new level.

Big ambition – to “turn the world inside out”.

JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to

show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face

across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious

TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more

about his work and learn how you can join in at

insideoutproject.net.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the

_world_inside_out.html