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Anarchist Visual Landscapes, New York City, Nov. 20, 2005
bhagat writes:
Josh MacPhee on Anarchist Visual Landscapes
New York City, Nov. 20, 2005
The Institute for Anarchist Studies is pleased to announce our new Anarchist Theory at Bluestockings series, a bi-monthly event featuring IAS supported writers and an anarchist perspective on contemporary issues.
The first event in the series will be a presentation by Josh MacPhee, Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape, a talk and slide show "about how our visual environment controls our social space from the top down, and ways to contest this." (Full description below.)Josh McPhee was awarded an IAS grant in February 2003 for "Building New Contexts for Anarchist Graphics, Video and Film", a three-essay collection on anarchism and aesthetics. These essays focus on how anarchist cultural products are produced in a world defined by visual literacy, how this relates to capitalism’s use of design and art to “brand” ideas and products, and how anti-authoritarian signs and signifiers compare and compete. His essay, "Four Questions for Anarchist Art" appears in the Fall 2005 issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory.
TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR VISUAL LANDSCAPE
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.
Sunday, November 20th
7-9 pm
@ Bluestockings
172 Allen Street, New York
Bluestockings is located between Stanton and Rivington Streets, one block south of "2nd Avenue" station on the F line; and five blocks from "Essex Street / Delancey Street" station on the JMZ-line. For more information, visit www.bluestockings.com.
Josh MacPhee is a street artist, designer, curator, author and activist. His first book, Stencil Pirates: A Global Survey of Street Stenciling, was published in July 2004 by Soft Skull Press. He is currently working on a book of radical political graphics which he is co-editing with Favianna Rodriguez, and a collection of writings about art and anarchism which he is co-editing with Erik Reuland. A street stenciler and poster maker for over a decade, Josh also runs a radical art distribution project, www.justseeds.org, as a way to develop and distribute t-shirts, posters, and stickers with revolutionary content. He also collectively organizes agit-prop cultural actions with ad-hoc groups of artists under various organizational names such as "Department of Space and Land Reclamation" and "Street.Rec."
bhagat writes:
Josh MacPhee on Anarchist Visual Landscapes
New York City, Nov. 20, 2005
The Institute for Anarchist Studies is pleased to announce our new Anarchist Theory at Bluestockings series, a bi-monthly event featuring IAS supported writers and an anarchist perspective on contemporary issues.
The first event in the series will be a presentation by Josh MacPhee, Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape, a talk and slide show "about how our visual environment controls our social space from the top down, and ways to contest this." (Full description below.)Josh McPhee was awarded an IAS grant in February 2003 for "Building New Contexts for Anarchist Graphics, Video and Film", a three-essay collection on anarchism and aesthetics. These essays focus on how anarchist cultural products are produced in a world defined by visual literacy, how this relates to capitalism’s use of design and art to “brand” ideas and products, and how anti-authoritarian signs and signifiers compare and compete. His essay, "Four Questions for Anarchist Art" appears in the Fall 2005 issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory.
TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR VISUAL LANDSCAPE
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.
Sunday, November 20th
7-9 pm
@ Bluestockings
172 Allen Street, New York
Bluestockings is located between Stanton and Rivington Streets, one block south of "2nd Avenue" station on the F line; and five blocks from "Essex Street / Delancey Street" station on the JMZ-line. For more information, visit www.bluestockings.com.
Josh MacPhee is a street artist, designer, curator, author and activist. His first book, Stencil Pirates: A Global Survey of Street Stenciling, was published in July 2004 by Soft Skull Press. He is currently working on a book of radical political graphics which he is co-editing with Favianna Rodriguez, and a collection of writings about art and anarchism which he is co-editing with Erik Reuland. A street stenciler and poster maker for over a decade, Josh also runs a radical art distribution project, www.justseeds.org, as a way to develop and distribute t-shirts, posters, and stickers with revolutionary content. He also collectively organizes agit-prop cultural actions with ad-hoc groups of artists under various organizational names such as "Department of Space and Land Reclamation" and "Street.Rec."