“So long, so long, you kept me waiting so long, so long, Read the epitaph, ring the bell, you’ve got a one-way ticket to hell.”
No need to add a word to Chumbawamba’s statement:
Let’s make it clear: This is a cause to celebrate, to party, to stamp the dirt down [...] If we must show a little reverence and decorum at this time, then so be it. Our deepest sympathies go out to the families of all Margaret Thatcher’s victims.
P183 # Russian street artist # Dubbed by the international press as the “Russian Banksy”
Died April 1st, 2013, at the age of 29 # RIP
So far, no explanation was given to his death.
This is not something brand new for the word but it is the first time it is done in Athens: BASE Jump from Apollo tower in Riancour street. The video ignited multiple reactions and comments about the legitimacy of this action coming from a number of prudent citizens who demand that the jumper gets arrested and punished; claiming reasons of safety and security. WWT wants to comment that BASE jump, like any other urban sport, such as parkour, skate or bmx offers new readings of the urban landscape, breaks the borders of regular and organized urban behaviour and as such it bears risk (mainly for the doer) but also responsibility .Unfortunately prudent citizens assume that everybody except them is irresponsible or perhaps they are green with envy for not having the guts to jump themselves!
Political paste-up in Paris from an unknown artist inspired by Hokusai’s “Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”. Via The Real Art of Street Art
Moss graffiti, also called eco-graffiti or green graffiti, replaces spray paint, paint-markers or other such toxic chemicals and paints with a paintbrush and a moss “paint” that can grow on its own. As people become more eco-friendly and environmentally aware, the idea of making living, breathing graffiti has become a more green and creative outlet for graffiti artists. It can also be considered another form of guerrilla gardening.
Ingredients:
Steps:
via wikihow and true activist
Keep it up girls…
artist Eyesaw
artist Bill posters
artist Ron English
artist Cleon Patterson
artist Leo Murray
artist Paul Insect
“We are tired of being shouted at by adverts on every street corner so we decided to get together with some friends from around the world and start to take them back, one billboard at a time.”
Billboard attacks by 25 artists from 8 countries for the Brandalism project
Do you remember our previous post on Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot and their excellent performance in front of a Cathedral iconostasis in protest against the rule of Vladimir Putin? (if not check here, they are great!)
Well, after their performance and just because the lyrics were not pleasant to the president, three young women-Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevichare- have being detained by Russian authorities for allegedly participating in the group and charged with “hooliganism”.
On Friday 20 , their pre-trial detention was extended until January 2013. And if convicted they could spend an additional 7 years in prison — simply for singing a song.
The three women deny any involvement in the protest although even if they took part, the severity (and absurdity) of the response of the Russian authorities would not be a justifiable response to the peaceful expression of their political beliefs .
So take action now and join the campaign of Amnesty International Here! Tell the Russian authorities to drop all charges and release them! WWT is certainly on your side girls!
Indian guarding a construction site in Manhattan . Artist unknown , picture by WWT
New York based designer /artist Sebastian Errazuriz transforming street lines into dollar signs, as an alert to the wordl’s growing greed. A worth spreading, great idea!
via lustik
Plz check here our previous post on Death by Sebastian E, and if so, find WWT’s group Facebook page (+join us:) for our tribute to this brilliant project.
Performance of the Spanish Group Sangre Menstrual at the streets of Madrid in support of their “Manifesto for the Visibility of the Period “. The manifesto is against the tyranny of hiding a physiological function of the female body, of treating the bleeding body as sick, unwell and disgusting and all the taboos further reinforced by religion and society (following the guidelines set religion) .
By visualising the period Sangre Menstrual visualise the body as a political space. Well done girls!
Visit this link for the whole performance documentation. Pictures taken from bicharraca’s photostream in flickr.
Annoyed by unsolved burning issues in Serbian cultural policy as well as in society in general, Maja Pelevic and Milan Markovic, artists with no permanent job, came up with an unusual idea – to become members of almost all political parties at once and tackle them from the inside.
Their artistic performance resulted in a dramatic text, audio-visual materials, and a blog.
From February 13 to 21, these two screenplay writers applied for membership of the Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Progressive Party, the Democratic Party of Serbia, United Regions of Serbia, the Social Democratic Party, and the Socialist Party of Serbia.
As a cover letter for their application, they used a changed version of a 1928 speech by Goebbels called “Knowledge and propaganda”.
The text with a name “Idea-Strategy-Movement” was slightly adapted to suit political parties’ public image. Instead of “Hitler”, the artists inserted the name of the party leaders or ideologists. Instead of “National Socialism” they’ve used “democracy” or another suitable term. Instead of the word “propaganda”, which was frequently used by Goebbels, the artists came up with the word “political marketing”.
“It was exciting when we signed our Application Form, but when they called us to join and participate more immediately in councils, and boards for culture… I didn’t feel so good anymore.
I wasn’t sure who was using whom, because we didn’t have a clear plan of what to do after we joined parties as a part of our performance, so I didn’t have the need to bluff. To me, the value of what we do lies in the sole fact we are not bluffing, because this divides it from investigative journalism”
A quote by Milan Markovic from “They live”.
The feedback from the parties was surprisingly positive. Soon Pelevic and Markovic became members of the culture councils of most of the parties and got a chance to stand for election in various city and municipal party councils.
“[Parties] weren’t bothered with all of the ideological standpoints that the author [of the text, Goebbels] fought for, and which are apparently worth fighting nowadays: gaining power no matter the cost; spreading one’s idea into society’s pores, conducting ruthless propaganda,” Markovic said.
You can read more about They Live here (unfortunately most texts and additional material are in Serbian)
Members of the Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot performing against the rule of Vladimir Putin in front of the iconostasis of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral. The song says “Mother of God, Blessed Virgin, drive out Putin!”
The president reacted with his (NOT) well-known subtlety and gentle manners towards pro-democratic actions by imprisoning two young mothers that allegedly are members of the group, dishonouring both democracy and the international women’s day.
WWT sends a solidarity message to Pussy Riot, the women currently detained and FEMEN (Ukrainian feminist activists that got also detained while protesting for Russian elections). Go get them girls!!
Read the news on Pussy Riots here, and on FEMEN here.
Read previous posts of WWT on the inventive demonstration of FEMEN here ,on Russian colective Chto Delat’s lesson of disconsent here, on fair election protests here , or insert VOINA on WWT’s search to see the activists group’s bold and beautiful projects.
Participative Urban Art project in Vila Brâsilandia, one of the favelas in São Paulo w/the words in Portugese ‘Beauty’, ‘Love’, ‘Sweetness’, ‘Firmness’, and ‘Pride’, by Boa Mistura, a group of five Spanish artists, Arkoh, Derko, Pahg, Purone and Rdick.
via ignant
A new billboard ad disruption from street artist Mobstr in London
via street art news
WWT’s previous posts on artist here + there and you may check our posts on free billboards here
This inventive toy figurine demonstration has been set by a group of activists in the Siberian city of Barnaul. The toys, fully equipped with placards stating I’m for clean elections” and “A thief should sit in jail, not in the Kremlin” are enduring the snow after authorities repeatedly rejected the activists’ (the real ones not the plastic) request to hold a sanctioned demonstration of the kind held in Moscow to protest disputed parliamentary elections results and Vladimir Putin’s expected return to the presidency in a March vote.
The group wanted to hyperbolise the attempt of the authorities to limit citizens’ rights and the “absurdity and farce of officials’ struggle with their own people” and indeed they managed: The Police asked prosecutors to investigate the legality of protest !!Wall-E , plastic teddy bears, South Park characters and Lego men are all in deep deep trouble!
Passersby admired the display with giggles, but police took it more seriously, examining its details and writing down each placard.
Photograph: Sergey Teplyakov/vkontakte
Via the Guardian
