'Weapon of Choice are proud to present the official ‘See No Evil pop up gallery’ based at the heart of the event on Nelson Street. Which will be showcasing original artwork, limited edition prints and clothing from a wide range of the artists taking part in the event, along with official ‘See No Evil’ merchandise.'
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Is this what we're left with? a pop up gallery. Nothing says an exciting city to visit, like a fucking shop. Nothing says an exciting city to visit like painting some walls, in a safe productive manner, look at the pretty pictures mummy, we can all feel safe knowing that wonderful creative individuals can be brought in from the cold and help society in a positive manner.
What are you doing?
It all becomes nothing. If all you want is to do is be an advert writer for the tourist board than so be it, don't expect me to pretend to respect, or regard it as anything worthy of analysis. Let's bury our head in the sand and sell some more art and be sure to dress it up as something worthy. Let's try not to think of the heritage of protest of what the fuck is going on in the world. The walls the last non-moderated canvas, don't ask for permission, don't say yes to corporate paymasters who want to use you, it's not getting 'up', it's nothing, nothing but a tired joke for the molly coddled, middle classes to scared to ask any real questions.
Street artists travel the world painting murals, mundane, tired, effective murals, to advertise something here, something there, a show here, a show there.
The world is burning, regimes fucking disintegrating, fat fucking bloated bankers taking the working people for every last penny they have, governments creating soundbites to hypnotise people too tired to think, cunts at all levels looking for cheap fixes for long term problems. Greed burning people's souls, leaving empty vessels fed with quick fixes of reality bullshit, the next fucking trend, the twitter generation too quick and too slow to read anything.
Do you see anything, anything other than your wallet? Your artistic credibility? Your forumblogflickrtwitter followers cupping your balls and saying an empty 'sweet'?
Street Art is Dead long live Market Economy Town Art
you're time is up, you're part of the problem.
Get over it man it happen to Skateboarding, Surfing, Punk, and every other slightly different edgy counter culture movement over the past 60 years, and it will continue to happen to every movement in the future.
ReplyDeleteSobbing and crying about it just makes it worse...... toughen up Princess.
you're right, but at least those things didn't come with GIANT MURALS OF CITY GENTS RIGHT AT THE SAME TIME AS KIDS ARE BURNING OUR CITIES IN PROTEST AT HOW CITY GENTS HAVE RAPED US!!!
ReplyDeletesorry to shout, but Nick Walker GET A FUCKING CLUE! I mean, really, could you have painted anything worse right now?????? cunt
It's a vandal in disguise you plonker.. ha ha
ReplyDeletewhat a bullshit fucking pathetic way to live a life, oh I don't agree with the way 'something' has changed, is occurring - oh right - best ignore, shrug your shoulders and move on...fucking pathetic.That's how lessons are learnt, changes are made, people are fucking challenged?
ReplyDeleteNo best just ignore and move on.
If that makes me a princess more than happy to stick my tiarra up the arse of those who shuffle along meekly and give them a nasty shock.
You just don't get it though Funky. What has happened to street art is an inevitable process of the kind of economic system we live in. Which is literally designed to exploit things and fuck people over.
ReplyDeleteYou still seem incapable of relating street art to the bigger picture though. You can't expect something to stay somehow pure and uncontaminated in it's own little isolated bubble when an ocean of putrid toxic shit is swilling all around it.
Yet we're not allowed to talk about politics on here are we. It's a taboo subject now after the riots, because despite all of your grand, abstract and meaningless rhetoric about disintegrating regimes, etc, you remain very conservative at heart, even though you probably don't think you are. As are many who also comment here. Striking their empty bullshit revolutionary poses to try to protect what has always essentially been mostly a marketing ploy dressed up as an artform. Proudly taking a principled stand against the evil capitalist world of urban art screenprints, yet equally quick to step into line with the Tories in denouncing anything that genuinely challenges social order, because to you, safely detached and ensconced in your comfortable little worlds, it seems incoherent, alien and incomprehensible. The tunnel vision at work here is laughable.
It reminds me of the famous quote "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."
Bit too scary and real for you? Yeah, I thought so. This is why I've realised it's a waste of time commenting on here. Because until you start to look beyond the narrow little clique world of street art and begin to relate it to the wider social and political context it exists in, then you're just like a bunch of demented dogs barking and chasing their own tails. Making a lot of noise, but ultimately just going around and around in the same old futile circles.
omg you guys are some pussies for real. Dude, if you wanna make your street art that's real, not use social media, not return calls to people asking for shows, bomb trains, blow up cities, destroy tunnels. DO YOUR THING.
ReplyDeleteI just don't get you man. It's like the past five years have seen an onslaught of hundreds of people getting into street art. What's bad about that? Your opinion comes from this area where it's either you've been royally screwed as an artist in the past or you just have such a napoleon syndrome when it comes to art critique.
The Internet has helped street art/graff 100,000x. Artists can create the epitome of accessible art. For a random dude like me, I might buy a single piece of art once in a while for like 300-400$ but it's because i love it to death. For a random dude like me, the style and essence of 1970s graff photography, COPE, REVOK, legends of graff are no accessible to my brain directly, and inspire me to labor on the flow of five letters.
If you are so keen on fighting the system stop bemoaning the inevitability of the system. You are like a bicycle manufacturer crying about the invention of the car dude. Get up on your grind and realize that the medium isn't dead. The cup is not half empty yo.
Not to mention the whole point of outdoor art in general is to get out a name, a motif, a style, an idea. If that is conveyed so be it. If it isn't, then it isn't. IMO, it's still the most humble, simple and plebian form of art, which is what art should be.
Stop crying capitalism foul dude. I might be judging you but you probably live in an American city where you can go out and buy 15 different kinds of snacks and candy bars. Isn't the essence of actual food now tainted? Where's my raw coconut and berries and shit?
The internet is a revolutionary tool, but it will not start a revolution. Don't get mad at the table cause you stubbed your toe.
not allowed to talk about politics? talk about politics if you fucking want, just don't talk SHIT - show some fucking intellect make it interesting.
ReplyDeleteI WANT TO SEE SOME FUCKING RIOT RELATED GRAF/Street Art will anyone do it? NO because there's no money in it.
Who's right wing? Most fucking street artists sucking on capitalism's tit.
Am I right wing? Fuck off.
Is that clear enough for you?
Nah, waste of time to try to talk about anything
ReplyDeletepolitical on here Funky, because some conservative knob will type "You are a
cunt" 25 times down the page in reply to it, which you won't delete, but
then you don't like it when the inevitable slagging off match results from it.
It's no wonder people get the impression you're biased if you show that kind of
inconsistency.
A drab shitty part of Bristol got painted by some great artists. Friends got together, loads of people came to view an amazing event and the block party was kick ass. MOVE ON
ReplyDeleteI am a fan of the Bill Hicks idea of the "corporate cocksucker", which goes as follows:
ReplyDelete"Here's the deal, folks: You do a commercial, you're off the artistic roll call. Forever. End of story. Okay? You're a corporate fucking shill, you're another whore at the capitalist gang-bang, and if you do a commercial, there's a price on your head, everything you say is suspect, and every word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink... "
The above scenario seems very relevant to street art.
I think there should be some kind of scale that can be used to measure the work been produced. These might work...
Note: zero is good and 10 is bad
The Originality scale - on a scale of 0 to 10
how original is this image?
The Lame scale - on a scale of 0 to 10
how lame is this image?
The Sellout scale - on a scale of 0 to 10
how much of a sellout is this artist?
That's the best you can come up with? 'move on' . How very preictable and disappointing.
ReplyDeleteYou do make a good point (as I'm capable of actually addressing points made). The streets were brightened up.
But on the say so of who? For what purpose? And for how long? Does this help any of the underlying problems of the city? Were any of the fundamental issues addressed? You were playing by the rules, running with the agenda set by those in charge.
By all means brighten up the streets. But do it on your terms.
if this was a 'dig' or a pointed reminder of what happened on the streets recently, it wholeheartedly failed miserably to clearly make that point.
ReplyDeleteLooks like your favourite crusty was the only one to paint anything political or riot based Funky.
ReplyDeleteSo who is that then?, for those of us who are not quite up to speed on Funky's crusty preferences.
ReplyDeleteGo do it yerself ya lazy fucker
ReplyDeleteCocaine James Golding from Pertwee, yah yah whatever gallery is predictably losing money hand over fist with their pretentious crap non street artists. So what does he do to stop the rot? Yeah, adds Fucking Swoon to the roster of his new gallery show... That will bring the massive in!
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