Graffiti! Of course we've noticed!!! It's hard not to notice, buggering about at 4:21am
in the morning with a bag full of paint, stencils or fly posters….. Of COURSE you are getting
irritated by this vandalism, you are probably a home owner of mid to late 40's who thinks that
the area is far too trendy since you arrived 5 or 6 years ago on the wave of some artists acclaim.
The fact that you prefer the usual tribal, football and often racist scratches
that can be found
on many a bog door speaks volumes. Obviously you prefer the 'raw art'
experience that the style
mags are endlessly harping on about and trying to copy. Is that where
you work? I bet it is.
Either that or you are as I suspect a fascist.
I agree it is unfortunate that large corporations are
using graffiti tactics in order to
get in with the kids; the likes of playstation, home and fabric should
be boycotted for their
dubious and illegal actions. It’s hard to know how they get away
with it, having traceable
addresses and accountability (if you do wish recompense, then you know
where they live. However I
am sure you patronise all three in anonymity)
It was of course no surprise that you missed any message
in our bombshoreditch campaign
www.bombshoreditch.co.uk . The connections between the different styles
and content not being
hard to miss, by all but the 'up themselves squad'. We do not assume that
the whole of the area is a bunch of foppish turn up driven no marks. C6’s
non-violent invasion of both real and a virtual new media territories,
was to highlight the control the minority have on the depiction of a society
or area.
The media are bad enough with out a new brand. New media
has categorised itself as a vacuous and money
led industry, keen to play 'Buzz word bingo' while their mobile phone
rings incessantly on the 'Gucci' bar table. There is no content statement
or motivation other than the endless proliferation of more stroking of
each other egos.
What makes us different? Perhaps the fact that we DO 'get
up' (go and ask some kids what it means) in
galleries, street and in pubs and clubs. Our work is neither aimed at
style mags or any
of your whoring media outlets. It is self-sustaining self funded and self
motivated work without huge
commercial sponsorship like Michlob advertising.
After reading your article we suggest that you stick to the scrawling of ‘kilroy woz ere’. If your art is as bad as your spelling (see graffiti), you should leave the art to the artists.