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Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 07:47 PM Jul 2012

Street art against branding: Billboards in UK painted over

"International artists have teamed to fight against outdoor ads which in their view significantly disfigure a city. 26 street artists including famed Banksy’s mate Paul Insect, have painted their own work over existing outdoor adverts.

Artists from the UK, France, and Italy are on a road trip around the cities in UK as part of a campaign entitled “Brandalism.” They aim to "challenge the destructive impacts of the advertising industry".

"We’ve taken over these billboards because the advertising industry takes no responsibility for the messages they force-feed us every day. They claim to give us choice but we have no choice to 'opt out' from these intrusions into our public and personal spaces,” group member Robert Graysford says. "We're lab rats for ad execs who exploit our fears and insecurities through consumerism. I’m a human being, not a consumer. So by taking these billboards, we are taking these spaces back. If Sao Paolo in Brazil can ban all outdoor advertising, so can we.""

From
http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/brandalism-art-against-ads-657/

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A great collection of about 20 or so of the Billboards from the "subvertising" project
http://blog.vandalog.com/2012/07/brandalism-mass-takeover-of-british-billboards/

Very well done, and worth checking out.

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