Adbusting ... how comes?
was about 5 years ago to me by a good friend a spanndes book about a given for me at first somewhat opaque term. Manual of Kommunikationsguerrilla . This book will use it to forms of action, which targeted Des-/Information to her, such as in flash mobs or Guerilla Marketing not always policy to achieve goals. So there are many areas in which political actors creates confusion and agitation is presented to the viewer / receiver a distorted view of things or the target. A chapter that has particularly caught me is about the "trunk Adbusting . This action will form mostly advertising signs and other carriers are often modified or sprayed with drawings and words added in order to alienate their meaning. The beginnings of adbusting probably took its course in 1977, when Jack Napier and Irving Glikk procured access to the roof of a factory in San Francisco, where the text two advertising signs to change. After a few more action was the fact the so-called " Billboard Liberation Front " which are now capable and socially in the mainstream a lot ettablierter but still exist.
Banksy ... Street art at it's best
About a year later I was in London, attention to images of an artist known as Banksy, now almost learns a media hype. Banksy, who cleverly disguise his true identity, despite the ability is in the somewhat poorer and proletarian quarters Hackney nicht erst seit der Herausgabe seiner drei Bücher " Banging your head against a brick wall ", „ Existencilism “ und „ Cut it Out “ bekannt wie ein bunter Hund. Diese Bücher erschienen im Eigenvertrieb, und präsentieren einen Ausschnitt seiner „In- und Outdoor“ Arbeiten, und seien hiermit jedem Freund der subversiven Kunst ans Herz gelegt. So zieren nicht nur in den Büchern seine oftmals Systemkritischen Schablonenarbeiten und Graffitis viele Brückengeländer, Hauswände oder auch Autos in Städten wie London, Barcelona, Berlin und auch New York. Bansky bedient sich ebenfalls der Taktiken der Kommunikationsguerilla und Adbusters to offer an alternate perspective on political and economic issues. So he sprayed as a life-size picture of two London bobbies who consider themselves in full public dearly in the arms and kiss, or the stencil work of a black rat, which in large letters and red the modest statement: "Win We Will" to the Wall writes to discreetly on the real balance of power between humans and rats to make in large cities carefully. He confines himself not only to the long spraying stencils, graffiti, or just the change of advertising boards. In his third book, "Cut it out " he demonstrates, among other a photo of three stuffed crows on the wires which become one of the many drying-monitoring cameras in London to create. In all these activities he understands it sent a major public attention give to by without asking some of his "indoor" paintings in several major museums including the New 
York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Museum of Modern Art hang or contract work for NGO's like Greenpeace takes. This year was even discovered 7 pictures of him on the "West Bank Barrier on the Palestinian side of the wall. The representations of this kind-provocative pictures speak for itself. :)
revolution will (not) be critisized
lures with the reputation is well known the money. Therefore, Banksy has become increasingly the responsibility of criticism from the anti-commercial art scene, as he orders for Puma and MTV accepted and requests for his paintings also like modest £ 25,000. I wish I had found on the Internet a detailed statement of his own idea, but even here, Banksy seems to hold very cloudy. It is noteworthy, however, that for an artist with such a large output of paintings and objects will probably have little time to earn the money to "ordinary" way. Besides, most of his works can be admired in any case on the street where the stencil images of his famous rats appear natural best.
One of 7 images from the West Bank Who the **** is Banksy?
His true identity appears in art circles, and many Internet forums ample material for speculation to be. Police searched it will be presumed in the UK for years, and in journalist circles, its real Name is Robert or Robin Banks making another of his many slogans sprayed could be derived: Robbin 'Banks. grew up he had to spray in Bristol, where he was at the young age of 14, started the first pieces. In the only date given interview with a journalist from the newspaper "Guardian " Banksy is addressed, inter alia, on an unexecuted Werbeuftrag for NIKE :
- Banksy ". .. Nike have offered me mad money for doing stuff "
- journalist". But why did you turn it down?“
- Banksy: „... Because I don't need the money and I don't like children working their fingers to the bone for nothing. ..„
Die Frage bleibt natürlich völlig offen, ob ein Werbevertrag mit PUMA so viel besser ist als einer mit NIKE, zumal Indische und Indonesische Sweatshops meist Zuliefererfirmen für mehrere Großhersteller modischer Sportbekleidung sind, und somit zumindest dieses Argument nicht zählt. Zu hoffen bleibt daß Banksy sich in diesem Zusammenhang zu einem noch ausführlicheren Statement motivate more insight about his actions there.
