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Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.
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#vicpol#vicgov#victoria#melbourne#australia#class war#subvertising#subvertise#antifa#antiauthoritarian#antinazi#antinationalist#ausgov#politas#auspol#tasgov#taspol#neoliberal capitalism#fuck neoliberals#anthony albanese#albanese government#antifascist#antifaschistische aktion#antifascismo#antifaschismus#fuck the police#1312#acab1312#acab#allcopsarebastards
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You’re not tryin' to bribe Mother Nature with Apple swag?
#apple#apple watch#macbook#apple2030#apple 2030#agenda 2030#vision 2030#2030#greenwashing#nope 2022#nope movie#jordan peele#tim cook#mother nature#subvertising#brandalism
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another feature of our good old SPELLINGMISTAKESCOSTLIVES folks this time acting as BRANDALISTS FOR LONDON
next to an ELEKTRO BAOBAB sticker
#sticker art#wall art#stickerbomb#elektro baobab#spelling mistakes cost lives#brandalists for london#subvertising#elektro-baobab
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Item Name: Hand drawn advert subversion
Description: Plan for a design to subervert screen based advertising
Box Name: April 2021 - Oct 2021
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Another big failure, but I must shit-ify ALL the ADS!........... ? Really I missed an opportunity.
"Connect Work." "remotely intimate" intimate remote" Workly motely
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Y2K
Y2K is a visual style popularised in the late 90's and faded out from mainstream use around the early 2000's (1997-2004). The Y2K Movement is named after the numeronym abbreviation of the year 2000, commonly associated with 'The Y2K Bug', a proposed event were computers worldwide would seize to work due to not processing the millennium in their calendar systems correctly, this association makes this design movement very closely tied to the time period it originated in as it couldn't have came to be in any other due to the unique climate of fear and hope surrounding the new millennium.
Y2K's visual style can be described as being futuristic, showing the publics general consensus in what the future of the new millennium has to hold and how technology will progress. Y2K borrows a lot of its visual style from previous decades interpretations of the future, known as retro futurism. Examples of this include sleek, metallic/chromatic gadgets, bold geometric shapes and patterns, blobject elements, washed-out but bright colours, glittery transparent plastic-like materials, heavy inspiration from computer technology and various interpretations of the future, such as in the form of space travel, high tech gadgets and advanced internet systems.
Y2K's origins are thought to be linked back to the underground UK rave scene around the 80's-90's, an example of this is through the earlier works by The Designers Republic, who made album covers, posters, logos, apparel, typography and more that aligns heavily with Y2K's signature stye. They say that their style is influenced by corporate packaging and logos but they subvertise them as to make an anti-capitalist anti-consumerist message, this use of parody slowly evolved into their distinct bold, futuristic geometric style. However this style became more widely used in the mainstream around 1995-1996 with the release of Windows 95 and the start of the surge in popularity in the internet.
This visual style would fade out around 2005 to be replaced by other corporate styles such as Frutiger Aero and Mcbling. However, in recent times starting in the late 2010's Y2K has made a style resurgence, mostly due to designers gaining nostalgia from the time it was mainstream. Examples of this movement being sed recently include Happy99, u::r::here, The Y2K Institute, Charlie XCX and various other artists and musicians who have adapted this stye into their work.
Personally, I really love this visual style as it is incredibly visually distinct by being a proper time capsule from the period it is taken from. As well as this, I like how this movement characterises the future, by using highly stylised but plastic-like materials and gadgets, as it offers a wide range of experimentation and opportunity in its execution. I would personally love to incorporate this style more into my own art style as well as include visual elements from this movement into my own project, as it deals with change and the future as well as death and decay.
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3/8 Detournement : Activism's Anti Art
"An Artistic practice conceived by the situationists for transforming artworks by creatively disfiguring them" (Buchanan, 2010)
Where did it start?
Situationist International were an organisation of revolutionaries, avant-garde artists, writers and poets formed in 1950s Italy. Lead by French philosophers Guy Debord, the Situationists aimed to break down the division between creators and consumers, and fight to make cultural production mainstream.
Examples of Detournement
These types of Detournement are used by anti-consumerist protestors, art forms that often revise commonly recognised brand advertisements. (E.g. McDonalds, Nike, Apple)
Adbusters' "Subvertisements"
Culture Jamming
Detournement derives from the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. The critical theory in question analyses the influence of mass media and advertisement in how they help to shape our attitudes, expectations and social behaviours through subconscious tactics like culture jamming.
Dadaism
Created by a small group of avant-garde artists in the early 20th century, Dadaist art sprung from the distaste for rising capitalism and the horrors of war the rest of society seemed to be celebrating and romanticising.
As a way to challenge Capitalist culture, artists began to explore new forms of "Anti-Art". Through their creative expressions, Dadaists began to ask important questions about the role of art in modern society, but disguised it in humour and sly quips.
How is it relevant to digital activism today?
Looking again at Adbusters, their most recent Instagram campaign, 'Buy Nothing Day' ,uses the catchphrase "Participate by not participating" to raise awareness around overconsumption and breaking away from capitalism with the simplest of means. Whether that be bringing your own lunch to work, or not buying your regular overpriced iced venti caramel macchiato. Adbusters, when first founded in 1989, were already way ahead of the curve before social media even existed. By using memes, inside jokes and the clever ability to poke fun at modern society, groups like Adbusters and even the Situationists were just the kickstart to a whole new format of detournement and eventual digital activism.
References:
What is Dadaism, Dada Art, or a Dadaist? (2022) Available at: https://magazine.artland.com/what-is-dadaism/ (Accessed: 30.11.22)
Situationist International (2019) Available at: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/situationist-international (Accessed:30.11.22)
Cole, N.L (2021) Understanding Culture Jamming and How it Can Create Social Change. Available at: https://www.thoughtco.com/culture-jamming-3026194 (Accessed: 30.11.22)
Buchanan, I. (2010) détournement, A Dictionary of Critical Theory, Oxford University Press
Debord, G. and Wolman, G.J. (1956) A User's Guide to Detournement, Les Lèvres Nues, Brussels
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"Mcgenocide, not worth a dead child!"
Spotted in Manchester, England
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The 10 Worst Fucking Corporations In The World.
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Urban art exhibition planned in Weymouth to celebrate 'Banksy boom' | Dorset Echo
The showcase, called 'GREED', will be on display at 11 St. Nicholas Street from Friday, April 7 until Monday, April 10.
The exhibition will comprise of subversive and urban art created by more than 70 renowned artists on a 14 metre wall.
'GREED' is being organised by a newly-formed art collective based in Weymouth, whose aim is to create a grassroots art scene whilst shining a spotlight on local and international artists.
It will feature paintings, photography, film, brandalism, sculptures, performances and public live art, with orgamisers wanting to celebrate 'revolutionary and alternative' culture.
The four-day event will also see performances from bands, poets and musicians along with a series of talks, workshops, activities and film screenings.
All of work on display acts as social commentary and marks what is known as the ‘Banksy boom’ which has spawned a wealth of artists and activists who want to respond to a wide range of subjects, from the cost-of-living crisis to gender politics.
Included in the exhibition are world renowned artists Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives, Foka Wolf, Subvertiser, My Dog Sighs, Wefail, Frank Riot, Haus Of Lucy, Hats Richardson and Guy Denning along with local artists Bod and Sock Oven and street photographers, Paul Russell and Si Jubb.
Artist BOD, who will be displaying work at the exhibtion and is one of the organisers of the event, said: "Since moving to Weymouth four years ago, I've been completely overwhelmed by the vacuum of culture here.
"There's a couple of galleries with 'safe' art but the more interesting art around here has been hidden away on social media mostly.
"So I decided to pull together a large group of artists for four days in Easter as a kind of 'exposure therapy' for this dormancy in the hope of inspiring others to do more challenging art in the area.”
Andy Smith, an artist and activist who is involved in the Weymouth project, added: "Art has always acted as a mirror to the world; as we continue our descent into apocalyptic consumer capitalism and political greed we’re going to see more and more artists reflecting the social struggles we’re all increasingly facing on a day to day basis."
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