Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape
Posted November 15, 2005 by in Events
Josh MacPhee --- badass stencilist, founder of Just Seeds, workhorse behind the Celebrate People's History posters, curator of the Paper Politics show and Street Art Workers campaign, and all-around nice guy --- is giving a slideshow and talk this Sunday that you don't want to miss:
Taking Control of Your Visual LandscapeA Talk and Slideshow by Josh MacPhee
Novemeber 20th, 7PM
Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St., 212.777.6028
Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape is a presentation about just that, how our visual environment controls our social space from the top down, and ways to contest this. We will begin with a discussion of how corporations and the state use our environment, the "visual landscape," to create a monologue of control, and how this monologue frames our thoughts and behaviors. A slide show will be presented displaying an extremely broad array of styles and techniques of intervening in this system, spanning across both decades and continents. These images provoke peoples’ imaginations as to what a real public dialogue on the street might look like and show how possible it is. We will then discuss what seems to work or not work in terms of communicating on the street.
Josh gives a hell of a slideshow and is one of the smartest thinkers in the street art universe. Don't miss it.
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hi!
is it possible to have some materials from the conferences... slides if any, or photos or something? who should i ask to? thank you.
Josh has an essay in the Institute for Anarchist Studies' journal, Perspectives. I think the article bares the same name as this post. If you're in NYC you can find the magazine at Bluestockings, where this event was held. If you aer interested in images, you should contact Josh, he can be reached thru www.justseeds.org
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Josh is one of my heroes, he should be one of yours too!
Posted by: k.see at November 18, 2005 2:57 AM