Feb 18, 2006 - street art
Wooster Collective
Ohhh, I emailed Wooster Collective (only one of the biggest community website’s celebrating Street Art), about new threats from police (in Melbourne) on the artists there at a new art exhibiton called Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne.
Anyway, they emailed me back and posted the story up right away! For more info, check it here. Thanks to Tim for the heads up. Also, the exhibition also opens in Sydney, 6 – 9pm Friday 3rd of March, China Heights: 3rd Floor, 16-28 Foster St Surry Hills 2010.
Exhibition runs from 4th – 5th of March
Open Saturday & Sunday 12 – 5pm
8 Comments, Comment or Ping
tim
there’s so much graffiti related cencorship going on right now, it’s just getting really absurd. Have you heard about the graffiti computer game that’s just been banned? Only country in the world to do it..
Feb 18th, 2006
Jo
yeh, i heard bout it.
also, some dude whose been graffing since the 70s from melbourne is being hunted down right now – all the way to london…
meh, it’s all part of the game really isnt it? if graff were legal, it’d be pointless.
i think graff at exhibitions is a bit over the top anyway… its awkward. check out ‘wildstyle’ the film to get a better idea of it all.
Feb 18th, 2006
mads
Yeah, Bonez from the 70k crew has been arrested and apparently facing like ten years for over million dollars worth of damage. This guy is prolific man, his tag is everywhere in Melbourne.
About the exhibition, it’s not really street art if it’s in a gallery, right?
Feb 19th, 2006
Jo
>>About the exhibition, it’s not really street art if it’s in a gallery, right?
I agree, but I think it also helps “the cause” if you exhibit it for the art collector/media types. Just so they can understand its potential in a non-threatening setting they are familar with.
Modified graff, or watered down street art, should ultimately be experienced with a brickwall texture and the suspicious smell of unrine nearby…
Feb 19th, 2006
Jo
btw. i can’t beleive they caught Bonez!
Feb 19th, 2006
tim
I think in this instance it’s just a documentation of street art and I don’t really see anything wrong with that.
I do agree with street art being created for galleries loses part of it’s essence though..
But you’d like to hope that street art has evolved from being seen as just vandalism and something that can be recognised for it’s artform and deconstructed at a more intellectual level. I think galleries are a part of that along side your graffiti based films or books.
Will keep an eye out for Stylewise though.. It mentions it features Lee Quinones.. Didn’t he actually try and bring street art into the galleries?
Feb 19th, 2006
mads
I’d like to think that street art is about reclaiming public space and initiating a DIY aesthetic into the art scene.
It depends also what you think ‘the cause’ is, is that commodifying rebellion through exhibitions and street art books, watering it down for these art collector/media types?
It all comes back to who your making your art for anyway…recognition by a captive audience, or wankers looking for the next underground discovery that can be marketed as cool to the masses.
Feb 20th, 2006
jzzy
big ups! nice job!
Jan 11th, 2009
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