This fold-out map was intended to escort viewers around to the various locations and was promptly confiscated by the NYPD a few hours after the Scope~ Art Fair began.
This project took place in Times Square on 03-11-05 in conjunction with the Scope~ Art Fair. There were a total of 84 individual advertisements taken over on a total of 27 different public advertising structures. Within 4 hours of posting this project was almost entirely removed, materials were confiscated and I was threatened with my first lawsuit by the fine gentlemen at ReceptaSign. Phone Kiosks, Public Garbage Cans, Subway Entrance/Exits, and Parking Garage Entrances were all hit but only the subway entrance/exits survived and thus constitute the only documentation available.
This fold-out map was intended to escort viewers around to the various locations and was promptly confiscated by the NYPD a few hours after the Scope~ Art Fair began.
This project took place in Times Square on 03-11-05 in conjunction with the Scope~ Art Fair. There were a total of 84 individual advertisements taken over on a total of 27 different public advertising structures. Within 4 hours of posting this project was almost entirely removed, materials were confiscated and I was threatened with my first lawsuit by the fine gentlemen at ReceptaSign. Phone Kiosks, Public Garbage Cans, Subway Entrance/Exits, and Parking Garage Entrances were all hit but only the subway entrance/exits survived and thus constitute the only documentation available.
1 Comments:
I am in complete accord with the concept of confronting the pollution of advertising that offends our senses on every corner. And I am inspired by your blue and pink pieces. However - if you are to be the renegade artist we so desperately need in inventively turning advertisements into a venue for the creative will of the people, I am inviting you to contemplate what images or visual statements will uplift our senses or help us wake up. There are enough scared women in the world already. Why reinforce that motif? Is it enough to liberate us visually and then not liberate us energetically. What is your responsibility to the public as a public art artist? This is a real question. Keep on making art!
Iya Battle - fellow renegade artist
Post a Comment
<< Home