Robert Montgomery is a London artist who hijacks advertising space intended for commuters who don’t know they are art. His texts are part poetry, part an inquiry into our collective unconscious.
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“People, the Earth is not a Trash Can.” - Josh Trager, Kyle XY Series
Sculpture in photo by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, “Dirty White Trash [With Gulls]”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lphrv13XQr1qat36io1_400.jpg)
“People, the Earth is not a Trash Can.” - Josh Trager, Kyle XY Series
Sculpture in photo by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, “Dirty White Trash [With Gulls]”
(via anti-eco)
The amazing Ewan, creating a protest art masterpiece: a post-modern take on Eugene Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the People’ with all the figures wearing Guy Fawkes (V for Vendetta/Anonymous masks) Nov 5th 2011-photo by Jamie Boyd <3
The best collection of Occupy posters from around the world.
NOTE: Check out the paint roller one of the protesters is holding up in this poster from Jakarta. Is it just a coincidence that it looks similar to a sickle - the symbol of Communist/Socialist revolution? Am I reading too much into it?
This unknown from Grand Rapids Michigan sums up 2011. Oh and I guess the people at Time followed suit.
Enjoy your evening.
There has been an explosion of freedom of expression in the Libyan city of Benghazi. Any form of dissent was banned, until the pro-democracy rebels assumed control.
Transit: A Photojournalist’s Quest to Tell the Stories of People on the Run
Espen Rasmussen, an Oslo-based photographer, has spent seven years documenting displaced people around the world for his Transit project, a multimedia work that includes photography, video, a website, and an exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. The videos blend Rasmussen’s photographs and interviews, edited together by Anna Stevens at Panos Pictures, to tell the personal stories of people coping in the wake of devastating events. In this segment, he interviews women in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 1.9 million people have been displaced. The photographer reflects on the ongoing project in an interview with the Atlantic Video channel.
(via npr)
Hello, I went away for awhile and for that I apologize. The stream of social art will start up again soon.
The Notepad is a project created by SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production), it just was installed in the Talk to Me exhibition at the MoMa.
“Notepad” is an act of protest and commemoration disguised as a stack of ordinary yellow legal pads. Each ruled line, when magnified, is revealed to be microprinted text enumerating the full names, dates, and locations of each Iraqi civilian death on record over the first three years of the Iraq War. A printed edition of 100 notepads, was covertly distributed to US representatives and senators, as a sort of Trojan horse, injecting transgressive data straight into the halls of power and memorializing it in official archives. SWAMP is now working on a new edition that takes into account the American incursion into Afghanistan; with the disclosure of confidential information by WikiLeaks.
