Guerilla Art
Firstly, if anybody was thinking of going to see Come Together at The Empire on Sunday, quoting the mysterious password "Company Offer" when ordering your tickets may snag you a discount. Use this forbidden knowledge judiciously lest I smite you they withdraw the offer.
Now let's move our focus from the Empire down William Brown street to the award winning overpass by the Liverpool World Museum. Anybody who's ever used this overpass knows two things.
1. Apparently there are awards available for concrete overpasses.
2. There's a whole lot of flyposting going on.
The thick concrete pillars holding the whole thing together are all covered in multiple layers of posters advertising gigs and events around the city. There's a lot of competition for the more prominent spots and the posters are all in rapid rotation as the fly-posters attempt to cover their competitors material. I like to look at them on my way to work in the mornings and see what fun events I could be attending that evening if I had a life.
Then the recursive poster showed up.
I'm not sure how long it had been there when I first noticed it. It was on the side of the pillar, rather than the coveted front, so you had to get up close to notice it. It was just a printed out digital photograph on an A4 sheet of paper. The photograph was of the flyposted overpass, including the little plaque for the concrete award. I have no idea whether the person who posted it did so on a drunken whim or was making a serious artistic statement about the vacuous nature of the existing flypostings, but I thought it was wonderful.
Of course I'm generally in favour of guerilla artwork, particularly when it's recursive. Another, more widely known, example is the one up by Chinatown, by celebrated grafitti artist: Banksy. In case you're having trouble seeing the picture, it's a giant black and white rat (or as my flatmate persists in believing, a cat) caught in the act of graffiting a building with red spraypaint. The combination of the rat and the rat's graffiti take up most of the building, turning an eyesore into a talking point.
Anyway, back to the poster depicting posters...
It survived for quite while, probably due to its uncontested spot on the side of the pillar, but recently it was removed. Not covered over by other posters, but actually ripped off the pillar. I suspect one of the other fly-posters was annoyed by it and it's lack of respect for the serious business of illegally attaching advertisements to a concrete pillar.
It is after all, an award winning pillar.
Now let's move our focus from the Empire down William Brown street to the award winning overpass by the Liverpool World Museum. Anybody who's ever used this overpass knows two things.
1. Apparently there are awards available for concrete overpasses.
2. There's a whole lot of flyposting going on.
The thick concrete pillars holding the whole thing together are all covered in multiple layers of posters advertising gigs and events around the city. There's a lot of competition for the more prominent spots and the posters are all in rapid rotation as the fly-posters attempt to cover their competitors material. I like to look at them on my way to work in the mornings and see what fun events I could be attending that evening if I had a life.
Then the recursive poster showed up.
I'm not sure how long it had been there when I first noticed it. It was on the side of the pillar, rather than the coveted front, so you had to get up close to notice it. It was just a printed out digital photograph on an A4 sheet of paper. The photograph was of the flyposted overpass, including the little plaque for the concrete award. I have no idea whether the person who posted it did so on a drunken whim or was making a serious artistic statement about the vacuous nature of the existing flypostings, but I thought it was wonderful.
Of course I'm generally in favour of guerilla artwork, particularly when it's recursive. Another, more widely known, example is the one up by Chinatown, by celebrated grafitti artist: Banksy. In case you're having trouble seeing the picture, it's a giant black and white rat (or as my flatmate persists in believing, a cat) caught in the act of graffiting a building with red spraypaint. The combination of the rat and the rat's graffiti take up most of the building, turning an eyesore into a talking point.
Anyway, back to the poster depicting posters...
It survived for quite while, probably due to its uncontested spot on the side of the pillar, but recently it was removed. Not covered over by other posters, but actually ripped off the pillar. I suspect one of the other fly-posters was annoyed by it and it's lack of respect for the serious business of illegally attaching advertisements to a concrete pillar.
It is after all, an award winning pillar.
posted by Essy at 12:46 pm
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