Guerilla
In conjunction with the Street Art exhibition at the Tate Modern, various works
have appeared in the area surrounding the Fibre studio.
Artists from Spain, Italy, France and Brazil were all showing works at the gallery
and in the nearby streets. Some placed legally, some appear to have been done
without permission. Either way, the message would seem to be the same:
Street art’s ok so long as the perpetrator’s not from Britain.
In a decision I support, the gallery purposefully excluded Banksy in an attempt
to draw attention to other just as accomplished artists and aspects of the art
form. Just a shame I think not to celebrate some more of our own emerging
and already established talent.
There is a map of the route available for download on the Tate website.
Alex Geoffrey
Posted on Monday, 16th of June 2008 Permalink
Perhaps the most amazing, creative and ambitious stop frame animation I’ve ever seen by artist Blu from Bologna
Soon to be appearing on walls of Tate modern.
Dave Brown
Posted on Thursday, 15th of May 2008 Permalink
Someone is chopping the heads off posters in the Shoreditch area. Check out the decapitators set here
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Friday, 4th of January 2008 Permalink
It was 40 years ago this week that Ernesto Che Guevara was executed by the CIA and the Bolivian Army. As a tribute to the man and a protest against his assassination, Jim Fitzpatrick, a young graphic artist from Ireland, produced the ubiquitous high-contrast drawing (above) from a photograph by Alberto Korda. With the intellectual copy rights being waived by both men the image became, in essence, the first piece of viral imagery with the intention of getting “the broadest possible circulation”. And subsequently became an icon of revolutionaries, freedom fighters and Marxist students worldwide.
Oh, and of course Madonna.
Nathan Usmar Lauder
Posted on Thursday, 11th of October 2007 Permalink
Art director extraordinaire, guerrilla marketing go-to-guy and table tennis pro are just a few of the hats worn by Jethro Marshall. A long-standing friend of Fibre, JJMarshall Associates has just launched a comprehensive website that documents some great projects including a giant rugby ball made from thousands of balls for Adidas, an op art street vinyl project for Motorola and a taxidermic fashion shoot for Sky magazine. And as if that wasn’t enough, M. Marshall is also the wizard behind the curtain for fashion label Backhand and the Marshall&Vox line of T-shirts.
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 7th of September 2007 Permalink
Someguy is some guy working across the studio from me who has turned an fascination for bathroom wall graffiti into one of the most engaging collaborative art projects I’ve seen. Back in August 2000 he distributed 1000 blank journals around San Francisco, leaving them in bars, on the bus and handing them to friends and strangers. Inside were instructions to contribute something to the pages of the journal and pass it on. The journals made their away around the world, like some sort of global ‘exquisite corpse’ they became a product of the groups collective consciousness. What has happened to the journals is as compelling as the content found therein. They’ve been stolen at gunpoint (#949), taken to remote mountaintops (#323) and in journal #587 someone wrote a heartfelt apology and sent the journal to the friend they had wronged. The apology was not accepted.
The journals are catalogued online at 1000journals.com and in a book. If you’re not fortunate enough to find one or be passed one then that kind Someguy has created 1001 journals just for you.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Tuesday, 8th of May 2007 Permalink
Guerilla marketing is in the spotlight lately thanks to the Boston Police overreacting (?) to some viral ads for Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Earlier this year Graffiti Research Lab together with The Anti-Advertising Agency went guerilla to tackle what they see as a corporate sponsored graffiti on the streets of New York by masking the omnipresent advertising video screens with stenciled messages. You can debate whether or not their reaction is effective or justified but I can’t help but fall in love with how nice that type looks with abstract video playing within. Link.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Thursday, 15th of February 2007 Permalink
Since coming out here I pay good heed to the posted warnings about Mountain Lions when out mountain biking in the Santa Cruz mountains. But I never expected to see a tiger running wild in downtown San Jose.
This was the work of artist Karolina Sobecka for the inaugral ZeroOne art festival, which also included such delights as karaoke ice cream trucks, fire-breathing robots and pigeons with GPS.
She projected video of the tiger from a car as she drove through San Jose (not just stock film, but animated frames of her paintings). The tiger’s movements were programmed to correspond to the speed of the car and the architecture of the city became an active part in the performance. Grrrreat. Link.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Monday, 11th of September 2006 Permalink
All you inner Marthas—the Government Food Shoot Challenge is for you. The competition involves styling and shooting one of those drab, gray meals the US government provides to survivors of disasters and troops in the field. (Not so surprisingly the food packets seem to end up on eBay….).
Thus, in an attempt “to wring beauty out of tragedy, find rays of hope amid grim misfortune and,” as the organizers write, “simply prove that we can do things better than the Bush administration” they have set up the competition. It was kicked off recently with a photo shoot art directed and styled by several of Martha Stewart’s own (including Scot Schy, Will van Roden and Pam Morris). Now the organizers are sending out packets of food to those who enter before April 15 (or they run out of food) and the results will be made into a 2007 calendar with proceeds going to The People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Commission. Just don’t eat the food.
Link
Jennifer Kabat
Posted on Tuesday, 14th of March 2006 Permalink
I’ve wanted to post this since buying a friend the book for Christmas. Now David’s broken the taboo I think it’s safe to share…
L.A. based designer, Bodhi Oser, had no big idea other than he thought it might be funny to print out different sized ‘FUCK’ stickers and take photos of the signs he defaced. He was right. And by offering free templates and selling sticker packs on the website he has garnered enough photos for a book and the acclaim of fuckers everwhere. Link.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Tuesday, 7th of March 2006 Permalink
