Social Art,Political Art and Religious Art and Commentary Represented through
Paintings, Assemblage, Drawings, Videos and any other medium artists use.
1892 (originally titled 230 nooses) consists of 230 nooses. Each representing one of the 230 people lynched in 1892. Using nooses to show the extent of the overwhelming hatred, racism, ignorance, and bigotry that was present (and still is to some extent) in American history and culture started conversations and helped people to understand the significance of learning American history from a variety of viewpoints.
This piece morphed into several other works also in the show. You can read more about my artwork from Make it Plain on my art blog. http://feliciafollum.blogspot.com/
Bio for Felicia Follum: is a a graphic designer and social justice artist. She is currently attending the University of Wyoming and plans to graduate in May. She plans to continue creating art that focuses on social issues. You can contact Felicia Follum via her facebook page or blog for more information about her artwork. http://feliciafollum.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FeliciaFollumDesign
ARTIST STATEMENT: Collaborative performance with Alexis Milne, Charles Stanton-Jones and Noam Edry: In the most recent null and void exhibition i performed and executed an arrest warrant of patty Hearst . But was unfortunately infiltrated by the celebrity undercover agent mark Kennedy resulting in the infiltrator being cleansed and expelled from the roof.
In rise of recent protests and attempted militancy of protesters much could be learned from the recent but forgotten history of ultra left groups. Skewed morality is exposed not only within these groups but also within the authorities wishing to expose them. Sexual and ideological interaction both enforces and destroys the bond within cells and elements that wish to create social change.Whether police or revolutionaries!
The chasm between the attempt to create a facade of power and strength totally contradicts their actual ability. Creating a situation that forces individuals or groups to act without debate or any democratic process. Using deceit and lies as there only way to achieve their goals resulting in acts of brutal violence. These processes are exactly mirrored by the state and government!
ABOUT THE ARTIST STATEMENT: I am an anarchist artist working in south London. I try to reconcile my hatred of capitalism with my understanding of how to get by in a capitalist society. Having to accept my own hypocritical position being a critic of power structures and rules we are forced to live by and having to live by them.This understanding and complexity i try to take into my artwork work. Personally i openly advocate insurrection and revolution as a tool to liberate humanity while understanding that this statement is totally invalid without detailed explanation.I wish an end to oppression ,exploitation and suffering without knowing how this could be achieved.
so i use art as a field to explore the power structures that exist and how violence is used by governments and revolutionaries to truly understand the forces that govern our modern world.looking at violence as a force for destabilization and change as well as a force to enforce and maintain power.In my work the physical act is the focus but the psychological response from the audience and the participants is as much a part of the artwork.
Mixing reality and imaginary, fact and fiction to replicate the way ideology and fundamentalism motivate and justify the acts perpetrated terrorists and politicians!
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Survival series: The Circle of Tchaikovsky
Militant camp @ arcadia missa
March 5th – March 11th 2012
A week long social experimental performance camp. Involving physical and mental training to prepare for the inevitable apocalypse and collapse of capitalism
I am looking for participants to be involved in an exhibition in acardia missa in Peckham. I am London based performance artist and require participants and collaborators for my next show. The exhibition focuses around a conceptual 'militant training camp' which will involve physical and mental training building up to the 3 performances at the end of the week. Preparing for 'the inevitable apocalypse and collapse of capitalism'.contact me for more information if you are interested.
the exhibition takes place march 5th to march 11th
info relating to this project and others go to http://blindtombresolin.blogspot.com/
David Bloem Artist Statement: "As for my art, I feel pressed to call the logos I've come up with art, as most of the actual images and all the fonts came from just googling what I was looking for, with additional tinkering by me in Photoshop and Illustrator.
However, if you consider the logo redesign combined with the rebrand domain, a new medium for expression, then it may be art. All the images were created after I had come up with an original, available, and in my mind, appropriate domain and registered it.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to point an undesired domain at others. However it's almost like putting up a sign that only those that know about it can see. So I decided to create a directory of how I feel about certain institutions on the Internet. And so for about the average cost of a can of spray paint, I can use Domain forwarding and masking to make a statement, the whole Internet could see. Keyword:could."
Kenneth Neal’s statement: "Know Your Bones", I will take some labored sections from my personal manifesto: Evil, For All Time. A chapter entitled "The Thin Line of The Equator":
Adaptive Man generated a progressive change as they branched away from the African epicenter and the Equator’s proximity. Developing changes within innate physicality’s and adjustment to diet based on the available ecosystem needed for survival.
The progressive human nature has generated necessary changes needed for adaptive purposes within each of our varying regions throughout this planet. Multiple genetic factors and attributable elements must and will be taken into consideration to better understand our common ancestry. To fuse our cultural bonds for the betterment of humankind.
Kenneth Neal age, 29, an activist/journalist, scholarship-winning poet and a sci-fi novelist by trade.
The premise of this work could be considered the fusion from the likes of Frederick Douglass / Stan Lee / Harvey Milk / Karl Marx. A social journalist doing my part to promote social, cultural, and class destruction awareness with my blog. Detailing critical points within modern Capitalism & Christianity:
Live Performance Sitting in My University Locker Waxing
Duration: 90 minutes
About Maiada Aboud
PhD student at Sheffield Hallam University, UK
MA – Coventry school of art and design, UK
In Maiada's words: As a woman in a patriarchal society, as an Arab citizen in a Jewish country ….in my videos there are always some forms of resistance to the sexual and social roles played by me as a woman, the roles that I have had to follow through all of my life as a way of transcending the “unkindness” of the real circumstances. Many reasons brought me to deal with the issues of gender and sexuality especially within the female body, viewed as a taboo in the Arab world, so that I could accomplish the things that are forbidden in my family, society, and religion. I have used my body as an actual material to reflect the social and the emotional conflict, trying to break down barriers between art and life. I have tried to create self portraits by breaking and representing my identity in order to make the viewer aware of the structure of seeing and exploring my experience in life, giving him a chance to have a look at my personal world and my own nature.
In Maiada's words: By using video performances, I can say what cannot be said/ done, and I can demonstrate against the system. I can represent the body, its weakness, and the body from inside, whether it is “at risk” “opened up” or in pain. That all together is culturally and politically loaded. Elements of endurance and pain are brought to life because of the fact that they are considered as a taboo in the Arab culture, and they are new to the Arab world since we are used to endure on a daily base within the political and social restrictions. While pain cannot be shared, it can affect and can be projected onto others in a way that they can become the site of suffering, while I can be healed. My work in general emphasis on the body in pain, it is considered as endurance art, and it highlights the suffering of the female’s body, (trapped, dislocated, in exile and represented as extremely enduring). All together trying to command the viewer to listen and question the relation between pain and pleasure, and to make him think of the different connotations for men and women, and differences in the way that the male and the female body are perceived.
Michael D'Antuono description: “The political environment today is awash in an unprecedented lack of civility. The 24-hour news media (as well as some of our leaders) promote their agendas with a no-holds-bared approach. Disguised as unbiased news sources, they spew deception and promote fear. Their daily hate-mongering and demonization of their opposition demoralizes our society and faith in our government.”
Michael D'Antuono quote: “As Picasso once said, "Art is not meant to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense of the enemy. In my case the enemy is hypocrisy, hate mongering, and lies. Through my art I offer an alternative view of social and political issues to help spark a civil public discourse. View some provocative art and express your own thoughts at: http://artandresponse.com/paintings/down-and-outsourced.html”
Some people might wonder what is the political implications is of this painting. I just keep thinking about all the republican candidates who has been thought to be potential heroes of the party. – and, of course oops!!!
Spiderman art painting by John Robertson 50" x 70" acrylic/latex on unstretched canvas.
Danish artist Peter Ravn painted "Queen of Russia" in Hanoi, Vietnam in November 2011, as part of the Emergency Room Exhibition. "Queen of Russia" was rejected by the censorship committee in Hanoi and not allowed to be displayed. The painting shows Putin in the dress and jewels worn by Empress Maria Feodorovna, former Princess Dagmar of Denmark. If Putin is re-elected in 2012 his presidency can continue until 2024. His reign of Russia will then amount to 24 years, longer than that of many kings and queens. Lately, Russia has passed increasingly homophobic laws and Russians have been demonstrating in the streets against Putin's rule. See also http://peterravn.com/
For questions, contact Peter Ravn: mail@peterravn.dk,
100 x 55 cm. Acrylic on canvas / Photo by Dorte Krogh.
Kenneth Neal statement - The NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) will punish U.S. citizens. 99% of U.S. citizens are still considered Slave Class. Punishment for the Slave Class in 18th century listed here: http://soundcloud.com/kenefat/a-modern-day-abolitionist Sad thing is we are standing on the Mirror's Edge of that way of life. Conservatives are easily fooled by shiny objects: the ruse of modern American Patriotism.“If we must fight for our human rights; remember, they are only broken bones. Wounds will heal but deception is forever.”
Facebook, "Ken E-FAT" http://evilforalltime.blogspot.com/
Contributor @ Political Fail Blog:
http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/09/ken-neal-writer.html
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Michael D'Antuono description: “The political environment today is awash in an unprecedented lack of civility. The 24-hour news media (as well as some of our leaders) promote their agendas with a no-holds-bared approach. Disguised as unbiased news sources, they spew deception and promote fear. Their daily hate-mongering and demonization of their opposition demoralizes our society and faith in our government.”
Michael D'Antuono quote: “As Picasso once said, "Art is not meant to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense of the enemy. In my case the enemy is hypocrisy, hate mongering, and lies. Through my art I offer an alternative view of social and political issues to help spark a civil public discourse. View some provocative art and express your own thoughts at: http://artandresponse.com/paintings/down-and-outsourced.html
Blind leading the blindater
Boarding performance, june 16, 2011
IN THE WORDS OF THE ARTIST:: Blind leading the blind explores morality in relation to class and ideology. The performance took place in a room resembling a derelict clinical space 'a institutional torture room'.A video clip of the royal wedding* was projected on the back wall. Small TV placed on a wheel trolley played a BBC interview with a young gang from Manchester* . Exploring how a mix of threats and actual violence maintains and re-enforces lifestyles from queens to chavs
* The royal wedding piece was named Ratstar. The name of a squatted social centre in camberwell that was raided by police before the royal wedding and the occupants held in jail for the weekend. The reason the police gave for the raid was searching for stolen goods.There were no stolen goods in the property and no reason to hold those arrested.
*The TV video a BBC interview features a gang called the benchill mad dogs. One member of this gang 'ryan' was photographed making a gun gesture behind David Cameron. This image made front page news in the UK.
*The main performance and focus the water boarding performance for me symbolises the ultimate form of institutionalized torture combination of physical and mental torture that leaves no visible damage.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE ARTIST :I am an anarchist artist working in south London. I try to reconcile my hatred of capitalism with my understanding of how to get by in a capitalist society. Having to accept my own hypocritical position being a critic of power structures and rules we are forced to live by and having to live by them.This understanding and complexity i try to take into my artwork work. Personally i openly advocate insurrection and revolution as a tool to liberate humanity while understanding that this statement is totally invalid without detailed explanation.I wish an end to oppression ,exploitation and suffering without knowing how this could be achieved.
so i use art as a field to explore the power structures that exist and how violence is used by governments and revolutionaries to truly understand the forces that govern our modern world.looking at violence as a force for destabilization and change as well as a force to enforce and maintain power.In my work the physical act is the focus but the psychological response from the audience and the participants is as much a part of the artwork.
Survival series: The Circle of Tchaikovsky
Militant camp @ arcadia missa
March 5th – March 11th 2012
A week long social experimental performance camp. Involving physical and mental training to prepare for the inevitable apocalypse and collapse of capitalism
I am looking for participants to be involved in an exhibition in acardia missa in Peckham. I am London based performance artist and require participants and collaborators for my next show. The exhibition focuses around a conceptual 'militant training camp' which will involve physical and mental training building up to the 3 performances at the end of the week. Preparing for 'the inevitable apocalypse and collapse of capitalism'.contact me for more information if you are interested the exhibition takes place march 5th to march 11th
info relating to this project and others go to http://blindtombresolin.blogspot.com/
This painting references the Creedence Clearwater Revival song , "Who'll Stop the Rain" - about Woodstock and the Vietnam war.. Here is a link to the Creedence Clearwater website with the lyrics of the song
Michael D'Antuono description: “He needs no crowd, no chant, no sign, for basking in the comfort of his luxurious office he rules Main Street and all the other streets in the land.Far above the maddening throngs of angry Occupy Wall Street protesters revolting against the morally bankrupt super rich, sits our captain of finance ensconced in luxury. Untouched by the discontented masses and untouchable by the governments he and his cohorts control, this heartless monument to selfishness is driven by his bottomless pit of greed. Lacking the restraints of conscience, and government intervention, he lives happily void of contrition for the lives ruined by his machinations”
Michael D'Antuono quote: “As Picasso once said, "Art is not meant to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense of the enemy. In my case the enemy is hypocrisy, hate mongering, and lies. Through my art I offer an alternative view of social and political issues to help spark a civil public discourse. View some provocative art and express your own thoughts at: http://artandresponse.com/paintings/down-and-outsourced.html”
If you want to express yourself make a piece of art. All I can suggest is that I will post what I like and disregard what I do not like. I do not know what that will be until I see it. Yes, I am biased but a little bit opened-minded.
I like lively discourse. Unfortunately most of the comments seem to come from a dead mind. So I delete comments that offer vulgarity, hate-mongering and just plain stupidity. I do do not necessarily respond to comments. Generally there is no reason to do so.
I have no idea why others create political art but the object of my social political art on this blog is not to convince you of my social/political positions. It is created by me is so I may be able to better understand a particular point of view. They are not about you but about me and investigating an idea. So I actually may create a piece with a point of view that may be contrary to what I actually believe. But in this way I get a different perspective on the issue. And - instead of demonizing it I come to a more rounded understanding. I am not clear on my bias but I probably lean toward being a right-winged, social democrat or maybe that should be a left-winged conservative republican. Whatever it is, I don't care. If I did - I'd be doing something a little more active than creating art.
