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vendredi, juin 13 indivisible cities
Re�u r�cemment dans ma boite aux lettres:
"hi lapanse,
thank you for running a great site.
my friends in the toyshop collective are organizing an international art swap. it's called indivisible cities and it's suppose to allow street artists/graf writers/et al to get up all over the world. basically, you send toyshop a stencil and someone puts it up in brooklyn. eventually you get a pack of stickers or something and put them up in melbourne. it should be an ongoing thing, but right now there's a push to get a lot of work going in the next two months so that part of it can be included in a show in berlin called backjumps.
you can find out about the project at www.toyshopcollective.com
sign� "Jeff Stark"
Imaginez ma curiosit� devant une telle intiative, de nature pratiquement plan�taire et mon enthousiasme, surtout apr�s un tel compliment sur le site de la Panse de l'Ours, reconnu ENFIN d'utilit� publique. Je me suis donc pr�cipit� sur ce fameux site du jouet collectif et je n'ai pas �t� d��u.
Pas d��u en effet par le challenge propos� dont je vous livre le lien et les cl�s et qui est � l'art urbain ce qu'interflora est � l'envoi de fleurs. Si vous avez envie de faire afficher la binette de votre belle-maman en train de repriser ses bandes molleti�res sur les murs de mexico, vous la prenez en photo discr�tement, vous passez vite fait sur un toshop d'occasion pour ombrer et noircir � fond, vous inversez pour avoir une belle matrice de pochoir que vous n'avez plus qu'� envoyer au webmaster du projet. Il trouvera un volontaire pour r�aliser votre projet et prendre les photos qui seront ensuite expos�es sur le site et aussi � Berlin lors d'une expo en vrai, du 20 ao�t au 20 septembre au Kunstamt Kreuzberg.
S�duisant non?
En �change, mais ce n'est m�me pas oblig�, vous pouvez aussi r�aliser le voeu le plus cher d'un petit gars de Brooklin qui voudrait afficher la trombine de G.W. Bush en clown sur les murs de l'assembl�e nationale. Pas fastoche mais excitant! Non, je plaisante, n'y pensez m�me pas!
Bon, mais qui se cache derri�re ce pseudonyme all�chant de toyshop? Je vous ai recopi� le petit texte qui est cens� tout nous r�v�ler:
"toyshop is about 15 to 20 people, most of whom have background as artists and are people who are trying to create their own space in new york city and in the new york art world, both of which can be daunting and alienating if you allow yourself to be formed by them in a passive way without trying to search out new structures of your own for living and interacting. so in that way we consider our activities art no matter what it is that we are doing, if i am organizing to get a radio broadcast off of a rooftop so that people can bring radios and create an atmosphere and enjoy the free use of our radio waves, i think of it the same way as when i am making a paper cut out to poster onto a wall. part of our objective is to break down the barriers between the specific spaces that you go to to exerience art, and the ability create things and enjoy the creations of others in the more functional parts of your daily life, like walking down the street, or riding the subway to work. as far as how our work affects the people who are faced with it in a daily way, we have had a few experiences when doing projects where the responses have been amazingly positive, painting a mural in a run down section of town one day, nearly every person that passed by thanked us for bringing some color to their block, when doing the billboard projects people have passed by and thanked us for giving them something else to look at or for covering up a specific add, on the other hand one day some kids asked us not to cover up a billboard for their favorite rapper so we let that one be. people have said that it becomes like an easter egg hunt, when riding the train to find the cars that have art work instead of ads, there is no fixed location for these, and you never know how long they will run for. as for work on the street, everyone agrees that for better or for worse once you start to pay attention, it changes the way you look at the city, it gives people a new, often transient set of landmarks with which to guide themselves, and allows you in a concrete way to see the manifestation of a certain kind of vitality in the city. once you start listening the walls don't shut up. i have been called a vandal, told that we have no respect for private property and threatened with a felony charge and a five hundred dollar fine if we were to get caught in the process of changing a billboard, because as i said before, in the minds of many it's only vandalism if you don't pay for it. the advertising agencies can infect your mental space with whatever they want and that's ok as long as they are paying for the right to do so. we do not consider ourselves a political group but when you do the kind of work that we have been doing, you discover pretty quickly that you are working in direct opposition to american capitalism, and that has a politics all it's own. the street party happened only once so far, and we did that as a part of the free biennial, an event in new york that you may have heard about because of free manifesta which happened few months later in frankfurt and which we also participated in, but on a much smaller scale, and which is how we became introduced to evolutionaere zellen. i was really excited when reading the evolutionaere zellen materials because it was immediately clear to me, that even if we had not articulated it to ourselves this kind of a cell for specific and small scale social social change, along the lines of creating a more participatory urban environment was exactly what we were trying to do. as a group we have been evolving for about two years in a pretty informal way, someone comes up with project and calls on their friends to participate. it is only recently that we have formalized our connection into one group with one name."
Un peu fumeux mais Andr� Breton aurait sans doute rajout� "fumeux fameux"! Et cette profession de foi est sign�e Swoon, qui semble �tre l'�g�rie du groupe et dont on peut admirer les travaux sur le site, www.wearechangeagent.com/swoon/, et c'est une vraie d�couverte. (Pour vous d�placer � droite sur la page, comme il n'y a pas d'ascenseur horizontal, il suffit d'utiliser les fl�ches droite et gauche � c�t� de votre pav� num�rique... Si l'avenir de l'homme c'est la femme et Swoon nous en apporte une nouvelle d�monstration, l'avenir de l'internaute d�sempar� reste quand m�me l'Oncle Tom, cela ne fait aucun doute! )
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Ballon Rouge d'Albert Lamorisse
On parlait justement de ce film auquel Nemo rendait ouvertement hommage avec son pignon de la rue Henri Chevreau.
Figurez-vous que la cin�math�que a la bonne id�e de le programmer mercredi 18 juin � 14 h 30 (42 Bd Bonne Nouvelle tel 01 56 26 01 01 - ou www.cinemathequefrancaise.com)
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mercredi, juin 11 Et si vous alliez faire vous-m�me vos photos?
Les Lezarts de la Bi�vre 2003, c'est � Paris, les 14 et 15 juin dans les 5�me et 13�me arrondissements.
N�mo a jalonn� le parcours de pochoirs gigantesques qui ouvrent sur un autre univers, le sien, magique!
Alors, puisque je vous donne les adresses ici, jetez-vous sur votre vieux boitier et filez donc musarder au pied de ces murs incroyables...
Et vous pourrez ensuite, samedi et dimanche, aller dire une petit mot d'amiti� � notre for�at du pochoir au 6 rue de l'Arbal�te, � l'Atelier d'encadrement.
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mardi, juin 10 La derni�re pub de Patrick Cox que vous ne verrez pas
Comme dit le MediaGuardian, "'Explicit' shoe ad steps into trouble ". Cette fois, c'est une vraie pub, � la diff�rence de celles de Puma, mais elle ne para�tra pas ailleurs que dans ID... On se demande pourquoi!
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