ANTIGRAFFITIHIPHOP exhibition documentation

Kristofer,

Very interesting.
I am super curious about why you posted this here.

Jason Van Anden
www.smileproject.com

Kristofer Paetau wrote:

> The ANTIGRAFFITIHIPHOP show was an event including a dance performance
> by Cross Level, a hiphop girlsband, and an installation with two fake
> wooden walls containing one (fake) graffiti painting and an
> overpainted graffiti which was replaced by two posters (the
> Antigraffiti manifesto in the documentation).
> The documentation of the show is now online, feel free to have a look
> at it!
>
>
> A web documentation to view at:
> http://www.paetau.com/downloads/Antigraffitihiphop/Antigraffiti.html
>
>
> A PDF documentation (1,2 MB) to download at:
> http://www.paetau.com/downloads/Antigraffitihiphop/Antigraffiti.pdf
>
>
>
>
> Best wishes, Kristofer Paetau

"We are committed to ending the tragedy of graffiti."
-from the 'anti-graffiti manifesto"
i'm no advocate for graffiti (though i have seen some pretty amazing
work in LA) but i would hardly say the graffiti is the tragedy that
needs community efforts to end. graffiti is a response to a set of
conditions - and sometimes a creative one. trying to eradicate graffiti
(esp. when one wants to associate with gang and drug activity) without
even looking at the complex of space and mobility issues that make up
sub/urban areas is kind of ridiculous.
graffiti is no more oppressive/presumptuous than the walls and
billboards built around people by others who don't even inhabit the
same space.
for another perspective:
http://www.rodeofilmco.com/graffiti_removal/script.html
or
http://www.counterproductiveindustries.com/gbgc/index.html
best,
ryan


>> The ANTIGRAFFITIHIPHOP show was an event including a dance performance
>> by Cross Level, a hiphop girlsband, and an installation with two fake
>> wooden walls containing one (fake) graffiti painting and an
>> overpainted graffiti which was replaced by two posters (the
>> Antigraffiti manifesto in the documentation).
>> The documentation of the show is now online, feel free to have a look
>> at it!
>>
>>
>> A web documentation to view at:
>> http://www.paetau.com/downloads/Antigraffitihiphop/Antigraffiti.html
>>
>>
>> A PDF documentation (1,2 MB) to download at:
>> http://www.paetau.com/downloads/Antigraffitihiphop/Antigraffiti.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes, Kristofer Paetau
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hmm -it's curious isn't it? A little voice says that
it must be some kind of curious conceptualist double
bluff but I fear it's serious.
Not that their aren't tiny *elements* of truth there
but the whole thing has a frighteningly neighbourhood
watchish-moral majority-crazy staring bug eyed-
invading your personal space intensity about it.
Here in the UK "bad neighbour" legislation is being
threatened against people who don't keep their gardens
neat and tidy . It's a bit rich to make graffitists
the scapegoats whilst merrily ignoring urban
destruction and pollution brought about by the ravages
of untramelled corporate power ( and also here in the
UK, I can't speak for the States, the closing down in
waves of cutbacks of many of the facilities which were
formerly available for young people in the most
deprived areas.)

best
michael
— Jason Van Anden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kristofer,
>
> Very interesting.
> I am super curious about why you posted this here.
>
> Jason Van Anden
> www.smileproject.com
>
> Kristofer Paetau wrote:
>
> > The ANTIGRAFFITIHIPHOP show was an event including
> a dance performance
> > by Cross Level, a hiphop girlsband, and an
> installation with two fake
> > wooden walls containing one (fake) graffiti
> painting and an
> > overpainted graffiti which was replaced by two
> posters (the
> > Antigraffiti manifesto in the documentation).
> > The documentation of the show is now online, feel
> free to have a look
> > at it!
> >
> >
> > A web documentation to view at:
> >
>
http://www.paetau.com/downloads/Antigraffitihiphop/Antigraffiti.html
> >
> >
> > A PDF documentation (1,2 MB) to download at:
> >
>
http://www.paetau.com/downloads/Antigraffitihiphop/Antigraffiti.pdf
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Best wishes, Kristofer Paetau
> +
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