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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (3613)5/18/2005 7:15:56 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Here's another example of anti-American slander & treachery disguised as "art".

Flag Hijinx at MIT

Little Green Footballs

Joseph Barillari draws our attention to this example of art abuse,
at the Wiesner Art Gallery in the student center at MIT:

littlegreenfootballs.com

... accompanied by this deliberately incomprehensible
justification from the artist:

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Protest Flags

These were the confluence of two separate plans - one to dye flags black, in order to convey a very different and unfamiliar visual impression of these well-known icons, and the other to use ‘sacred cloth’ as a medium for other messages, in order to attract more attention. Fortunately, September 11 2001 provided an almost limitless supply of these banners on every street corner, and subsequent manipulation of these events to commit further mass murder for political gain provided a moral imperative to protest. Unfortunately, many variants of the flags did not receive the dye well; I therefore saved the well-dyed ones for their naked visual impact, and applied lettering to the fainter ones. I made several slogans, wearing and carrying them in protests in New York and Boston. My goal was to attract strong initial attention from the visual effect of the lettered flag, but then to act as a challenge by having the slogans be slightly ambiguous and more than slightly provocative, forcing viewers (protester and protested alike) to pause and query whether or not they truly understood and agreed or disagreed with what was being expressed.
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Oh brother.

littlegreenfootballs.com

barillari.org
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