“At 12am April 1st, a group of “hactivists” and concerned public citizens infiltrated and hijacked the largest outdoor led screen in the north of England in Manchester for an April Fools day insurrection. The screen – all 7 stories of it, was subverted to display a different message to the 300,000 commuters that allegedly see the advertisements daily. The intervention stayed for 24 hours costing the fat cats over £30,000 of lost revenues”…The Dead Peasants
Archive | April 5, 2010
Fresh Stuff From Nazza stencil in Río de Janeiro
From Nazza stencil:
“The sadness and the happiness that walked side to side.
The carnival that is celebrated in Río de Janeiro is famous for samba’s schools which parade opposite to the spectators named “sambódromo”.
The complete city transforms in what goes from the second week of february to celebrate the carnival.
Throughout the world known as “carnival of Río de Janeiro”, the most attractive popular and tourist of brazil.
In Brazil also dies an average of 100 persons a day, which turns to the country into the world champion into absolute number of deaths of this nature, overcoming to countries in conflict as Irak, Israel / Palestina and Colombia.
Only the Brazilian state of Río de Janeiro accumulates 7.027 violent deaths between January and November of 2009, as has reported the regional government.
The police of the city kill three persons every day in R.J.
The images of this artwork generated polemic in the opinions reflected by the local mass media.
Painted en February, 2010 in Brazil with great acceptance on the part of the people who understood that the sadness and the happiness travel side to side in the daily life of the Brazilians.”
More on the Robbo / Banksy saga
Robbo’s well documented take back of his original eighties piece location and the taunting slogans painted on a further three Banksy works on the Regents Canal all received a new twist late last week. Where he had painted ‘King Robbo’ three letters (‘Fuc’) have been prefixed to the front in a similar style giving it a new meaning. Now pretty much guaranteed to be buffed in the near future it will be interesting to see whether they decide to remove the whole thing, leave just Banksy’s painter or remove only the recently added ‘Fuc’. Someone in the councils going to have to make an artistic decision. And that is normally bad news….
Further along the waterway Banksy’s fisher boy has received a second modification. Originally he was fishing a tag out of the water but this was changed by Robbo to a sign saying ‘street cred’. Now he’s pulling in what looks like a fishing prohibited sign.
On the site previously occupied by the ‘I Don’t Believe In global Warming’ slogan a completely new stencil has appeared. A solitary bird with a paint roller for a head watches the wall where Banksy’s and later Robbo’s slogan appeared apparently waiting to pounce again and erase any further work that might be added.
Finally the text around Banksy’s rat in top hat and tails has been removed and to my eye has improved the look of the rat itself who now appears illuminated in a spot light. I love Banksy’s rats so it was good to see one of the little fellas make an appearance in London after a gap of of a few years.
What isn’t known for sure yet is who did the above alterations. Were they really the work of Banksy himself or some avenging street art fan (with quite a bit of organisational skill)? We may never know but you won’t find many who think this will be the last installment in this long running and to be honest at times tedious battle.
The Pleasure of Absence
It is the pleasure of imagining a performance – or rather, of imagining a universe. A narrative, an aesthetics, an experience, a unity.It is the pleasure of imagining a liveness, a directness, a presence.The pleasure of experiencing the echo, the recor…