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Wielding a bucket of paint, and a whole bag-full of $10 words, ‘The Splasher’ is leading a dadaist revolution against street art, sort of.
His project does raise some interesting questions that seem worth considering. First, to what extent is his basic premise correct– are most streetartists spoiled children of the (white) bourgeoisie? Is their work just a leading sign of gentrification? And second, can a project that consists of destroying other people’s work itself be considered art? After all, burning down a museum would rightly be called a crime. Is this?
This got me thinking about the nature of art, especially about a performance vs. a recording. Is the performance a purer form of art, than the cold bits of a recording? The music industry seems to be slipping into using recordings as promotional tools and loss leaders for the live show. Which may just be what the industry needs - both for the independents and the majors, alike.
Great post/blog Xenlab. DaDa lives. I’m down with the idealism expressed by Splasher. The wheat paste/glass shards manifestos really sum up the reasoning behind their actions and eye can see the logic.
I am sorta ambivilant to the whole thing in one regard. However, I am also ever so tired of the modern notions of “ownership” that many hold so dear in the free market society.
Everything shouldn’t be a commodity, and nothing will last forever. So why do we cling so close to that which we think we own?
Land of the free, home of the trapped by our possessionism.
abstracKtion, reinvention, & intangibilty forever - gaR Lives