Comments on: Wooster Collective http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/2006/02/18/wooster-collective travel. blog. art. life. design. street art. music. film. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:09:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: jzzy http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/2006/02/18/wooster-collective/comment-page-1#comment-72678 jzzy Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:02:58 +0000 http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/?p=27#comment-72678 big ups! nice job! big ups! nice job!

]]> By: mads http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/2006/02/18/wooster-collective/comment-page-1#comment-34 mads Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:51:00 +0000 http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/?p=27#comment-34 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. 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.

]]> By: tim http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/2006/02/18/wooster-collective/comment-page-1#comment-33 tim Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:32:00 +0000 http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/?p=27#comment-33 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? 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?

]]> By: Jo http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/2006/02/18/wooster-collective/comment-page-1#comment-32 Jo Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:02:00 +0000 http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/?p=27#comment-32 btw. i can't beleive they caught Bonez! btw. i can’t beleive they caught Bonez!

]]> By: Jo http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/2006/02/18/wooster-collective/comment-page-1#comment-31 Jo Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:01:00 +0000 http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/?p=27#comment-31 >>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... :-) >>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… :-)

]]> By: mads http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/2006/02/18/wooster-collective/comment-page-1#comment-30 mads Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:49:00 +0000 http://www.jo-shin.net/blog/?p=27#comment-30 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? 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?

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