Стрит-арт Акция группы "Война"

[NATA NOVA]

Moriakoff, если что то непонятно(неприемлимо), то постарайтесь понять, а не отрицать..(совет)
Сколько людей, столько и "истин"...
Художники-не преступники (ну может слегка нарушители мещанского спокойствия), и не гоже им занимать места, на которые и без них очередь претендентов(в тюрьме я имею в виду)...

ЗЫ: Я Вэйвэйские "семечки" -замечательное концептуальное произведение со множеством вуалей (ИМХО)

[Moriakoff]

Сообщение от NATA NOVA

Moriakoff, если что то непонятно(неприемлимо), то постарайтесь понять, а не отрицать..(совет)
Сколько людей, столько и "истин"...
Художники-не преступники (ну может слегка нарушители мещанского спокойствия), и не гоже им занимать места, на которые и без них очередь претендентов(в тюрьме я имею в виду)...

ЗЫ: Я Вэйвэйские "семечки" -замечательное концептуальное произведение со множеством вуалей (ИМХО)

Если Вы обратили внимание,то я имел ввиду только Войну,которых я ,уж извините,художниками не считаю...Ну могу я иметь собственное мнение? А Шемякин может? А ........могут? Причем свое мнение никому не навязываю.

[NATA NOVA]

Сообщение от Moriakoff

...Ну могу я иметь собственное мнение?

Ну конечно же:

Сообщение от NATA NOVA

Сколько людей, столько и "истин"...

А вот моё: (уже как то писалось около этого)
Мне нравится. Считаю художниками. Мне искренне непонятно, почему столько кровожадного шума? (вместо того, чтоб вместе повеселиться)
Город на Неве получил (бесплатно считай) туристическую достопримечательность.
Почему то инициатива художников (особенно пока неизвесны) властями наказуема..
Постарайтесь оперировать другими ментальными категориями.(совет)

Свободу "Войне"!
Свободу Вэйвэю!

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Сообщение от Fed

Путин одним росчерком пера выделил помещение в 600 метров под мастерскую

- Помещение, в котором мы сейчас с вами сидим (Фонд художника на улице Садовой. - От авт.), было выделено не под выставочные залы. Его подарил мне в качестве квартиры и мастерской Владимир Путин. Однажды он спросил: "Миша, а почему ты в отеле живешь?" - "А где же мне жить? В 1971 году меня изгнали из СССР "навсегда", не разрешив взять с собой даже маленького чемодана. А две комнаты в коммунальной квартире занял другой жилец".

Отсюда.

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Группа Война передала 400 тыс. руб. госпремии «Инновация» в дар правозащитной организации "Агора"

28 июня 2011 года деньги "Инновации" в полном объеме упали на счет правозащитникам из "Агоры" (Межрегиональная Ассоциация правозащитных организаций "АГОРА").
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Война публично пообещала сразу передать все деньги политзекам. И свое обещание выполнила.

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Лёне и Олегу снова меняют меру пресечения

Дзержинский районный суд Санкт-Петербурга рассмотрит ходатайства следствия об отмене залога и изменении меры пресечения для Олега Воротникова и Леонида Николаева на заключение под стражу.

Заседание по ходатайству в отношении Олега Воротникова состоится во вторник, 12 июля. Время начала неизвестно.

Заседание по Леониду Николаеву состоится в четверг, 14 июля. Начало в 12:00. Судья Андреева.

Группа Война призывает всех журналистов аккредитовываться на заседания суда. В случае отмены залога Лёне и Олегу угрожает опасность ареста и возвращения в тюрьму.

[Kid Loco]

Ну с утра наливаю себе чашку хорошего индийского чая и открываю свежий номер любимой газеты New York Times. А там на первой странице опять статья по обсуждаемой нами теме - Флэш Моб как политическое явление в пост-советском пространстве.

Читаем все (кто не знаком с языком Франсиса Бекона пожалуйста воспользуйтесь автоматическим переводчиком)

К Л

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New York Times
15 июля 2011

Sound of Post-Soviet Protest: Claps and Beeps

Andrei Liankevich for The New York Times



Participants gathered for an innovative antigovernment protest involving cellphones this week in Minsk, Belarus. As political opposition withers, activists seek alternatives to chants and placards.


MINSK, Belarus — At the time appointed for Wednesday evening’s antigovernment protest here in the capital of Belarus, scores of burly plainclothes officers were waiting in Yakub Kolas Square. Their job was to prevent it from happening.
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But it was difficult for them to know who, among the skateboarders, young urban professionals and stolid-looking grandmothers, was taking part. The park benches filled up, and then the stone curbs, but the activists — following instructions posted on an Internet site — were not actually doing anything.

At 8 p.m., their phones buzzed or beeped or played music.

That was the whole protest. Plainclothes officers with camcorders meticulously filmed the face of every person in the park and forced a few demonstrators, struggling and shouting, into buses. But the sixth of the weekly “clapping protests” had eliminated clapping, which presented both the police and activists with some tough questions.

Can you really detain people because their phones are beeping?

And when you cannot tell who is protesting, is it still a protest?

Street politics have lost their relevance in many former Soviet countries, as the political opposition has withered away. But innovative forms of protest are popping up. None of them has managed to mobilize large numbers or pose any real threat to the ruling elites. They do, however, attract young people in free-form, often social-media-directed alternatives to the picketing and chants their elders employ. And the participants are proving very difficult to punish.

Russia has the “blue buckets,” activists who affix plastic sand toys to their cars (or their heads) in a protest against the traffic privileges accorded to government officials, whose cars are equipped with flashing blue lights. In Azerbaijan, where protesters are hustled away so quickly that even gathering is nearly impossible, small flash mobs have appeared out of nowhere to perform sword fights or folk dances.

The more permissive political atmosphere of Ukraine has spawned Femen, a group of young women who address such nonsexy issues as pension reform by baring their breasts in public. A woman was arrested in April for walking up to a World War II memorial in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, and frying eggs and sausages over the eternal flame.

Social scientists refer to these as “dilemma actions,” because they force the authorities to choose between two equally distasteful alternatives: to stand back and allow such activities to continue, taking the risk that they will build into something significant; or to impose harsh punishment on people who are engaged in a seemingly benign activity.

The latter route can result in a public backlash, as when Azerbaijan imposed two-year prison sentences on the so-called donkey bloggers, or when Russian authorities prosecuted Voina, a radical art collective best known for painting a 210-foot penis on a St. Petersburg drawbridge.

Belarus has opted to take a hard line. About 1,830 people have been detained by the police since June, when a small group of activists living in exile initiated the clapping protests, said Tatyana Revyako, who works for Vyasna, a human rights group. Upward of 500 people have received sentences of 5 to 15 days, she said.

The crackdown has generated a good deal of absurdity. As Belarus’s July 3 Independence Day holiday approached, the Minsk police chief, Igor Yevseyev, called a news conference and announced that citizens would not be punished for applauding soldiers or veterans. One of the people convicted of taking part in a clapping protest that day was Konstantin Kaplin, 36, who argued in court that contrary to the testimony of a police officer, he could not have been applauding because he has only one arm.

Another was Galina A. Goncharik, a diminutive woman of 68, who last week shared, with clear delight, the findings of a Minsk judge after she was detained for clapping on July 3. Ms. Goncharik, the decision said, “loudly expressed rude and uncensored profanity, waved her hands, acted provocatively, did not react to clear instructions, knowingly violated public order, the civil peace, expressing clear lack of respect for society.”

Her prosecution, she said, has shocked even relatives and neighbors who were stalwart supporters of the government.

“Everyone just laughed” when they heard the charges, said Ms. Goncharik, who was convicted during a 10-minute trial and paid a fine of about $175. “They said, ‘Have they gone completely crazy?’ ”
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A spokesman for the Belarus Interior Ministry, Konstantin Shalkevich, would not say how many people had been detained on Wednesday, saying Belarussian law allows the police to detain any citizen for three hours without providing a reason. From the standpoint of the police, he said, the protesters’ tactics are irrelevant.

“Whether it’s clapping, or ringing telephones or any other action is all the same,” Mr. Shalkevich said. “Any activity being organized in Minsk is an activity of mass disorder. The people who organize it are located far from the territory of Belarus.”

He added: “We have the power and the means to guarantee order in Minsk, and we will guarantee order. That is my commentary.”

The arrests have had a powerful chilling effect. For this reason, the protest’s organizers changed their tactics this week, instructing participants not to clap their hands, but instead to set the alarms on their cellphones for 8 p.m.

The “alarm clock action,” as some have dubbed it, sought to minimize arrests, and in that sense, it worked. But at 8 p.m. the cellphone alarms were barely audible over the noise of passing traffic, and by the time they went silent — about a minute later — it hardly felt as if anything had taken place.

Olga Tatarinova, a 23-year-old journalist, was disappointed. She had come to the square prepared to risk arrest. She said she clapped with her feet, but no one heard her.

“Everyone is afraid,” said a 27-year-old man who said his name was Maksim Pulsov, and who occasionally pulled a checked scarf over his face. “We need some training in not being afraid.”

On the edges of the square, people were coming and going, some on their way home from work. Belarus is in the grip of a financial crisis, partly because of the Soviet-style economic policies of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko. In power since 1994, Mr. Lukashenko has tried to shore up his popularity by raising wages and providing low-interest loans. This led to a steep devaluation of the Belarussian ruble; people then began hoarding food staples and lining up to convert their assets into hard currency.

But summer is a sleepy season, when much of the population disappears to cabins in the woods. The clapping protests have not attracted much support from the general public or, critically, from the factory workers who make up a crucial political constituency. This is in part because the young organizers are not offering remedies to mounting social problems, said Anatoly V. Lebedko, an opposition leader who spent four months in prison for participating in demonstrations after last December’s presidential election.

“These young people, they want more freedom, but that’s not going to convince people in the tractor factories,” Mr. Lebedko said. “We have to come up with some answers to the question: What is to be done?”

[Kid Loco]

Russian art radicals vow to destroy state property in revenge for arrest

MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti)




The controversial Russian art collective Voina (War) said it would destroy state property worth three million rubles (over $100,000) to "fine" the government for putting one of the group's leaders on an international wanted list.
Group leader Oleg Vorotnikov was released on a 300,000-ruble ($10,000) bail in March after nearly four months awaiting trial for an audacious protest called Palace Revolution, in which the group flipped over a police car to protest against corruption. He was charged with hooliganism and faces up to five years in prison.
After another criminal case was launched against Vorotnikov on suspicion of attacking police during an unsanctioned rally in St. Petersburg on March 31, the judge ruled that Vorotnikov's bail was forfeited. The art group leader was arrested in absentia and put on the international wanted list.
Vorotnikov said the state "misappropriated" his bail money, and will have to face sanctions, "because there should be harmony."
"In fact, I spent my own money to sit in prison," the artist said.
Voina is notorious for a number of events, including holding an orgy in a Moscow museum to mark the 2008 inauguration of President Dmitry Medvedev and painting a 65-meter phallus on a drawbridge opposite the St. Petersburg headquarters of the Federal Security Service

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Radical Russian art group donates Banksy money to political prisoners




The controversial Russian art collective Voina (War) said on Tuesday it gave part of the money donated to them by British graffiti artist Banksy to political prisoners.
Earlier this month, two of Voina's members, Leonid Nikolayev - a.k.a. Lyonya F**king Crazy - and Oleg Vorotnikov, were released from custody after nearly four months awaiting trial for a stunt involving overturning police cars in St Petersburg.
Banksy paid 300,000 rubles ($10,600) bail for each of them after earlier donating almost $130,000 to the group from a print sale.
"First of all, we used Banksy's money to help our political prisoner friends," Vorotnikov told reporters in St. Petersburg, without specifying the amount.
He said the group had paid for lawyers for opposition activist Taisiya Osipova and anti-fascist activist Renat Sultanov.
On their way home after a press conference on March 3, Nikolayev and Vorotnikov were beaten by seven thugs claiming to be police officers. Vorotnikov's wife Natalia Sokol and two-year-old son, Casper, were also caught up in the attack.
Voina is notorious for holding an orgy in a Moscow museum to mark the 2008 inauguration of President Dmitry Medvedev and painting a 65-meter phallus on a drawbridge opposite the St. Petersburg headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB,) successors of the KGB.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 22 (RIA Novosti)

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Kid Loco, можно было всё это и на русском языке разместить.
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Волгоградский художник Филипп Козлов нарисовал трехмерное изображение "Эсмеральдусика" (катер, на котором путешествуют по Волге известные блогеры) на асфальте городской набережной. Теперь художника забирают в полицию, где у него снимают отпечатки пальцев и фотографируют его в фас и профиль, а администрация порта собирается подать на него в суд.

Из полицейского рапорта:

Докладываю Вам, что... от оперативного дежурного поступило сообщение оператора «02» , что на нижней террасе Набережной неизвестные возле 5, 6 причала рисуют на асфальте. Прибыв на место, нами был задержан гр-н Козлов Филипп Николаевич 25.12.1984, который рисовал на асфальте. Данный гражданин был направлен в ОП №4 для дальнейшего разбирательства.

[Kid Loco]

Сообщение от Кирилл Сызранский

Kid Loco, можно было всё это и на русском языке разместить.

Теоретически можно и по русски - но ко мне поступает информация на языке Бэнкси и я выдаю в первоисточнике. Моя задача показать вам вид с запада на восток - местные новости, вы наверно уже сами читаете...

Кстати о виде с запада: Кирилл прошу сравнить вашу заметку с недавней новостью, что одно из "произведений" Бэнкси по незнанию было закрашено новым владельцем здания. Он потом жудко извинялся (!) и предложил провести реставрационные работы (!)

(Вы уж извините опять по английски)

Banksy pink gorilla graffiti mistakenly painted over

14 July 2011 ВВС

Banksy's gorilla in a pink mask appeared on the wall of the former North Bristol Social Club in Eastville
One of street artist Banksy's most famous early works in Bristol has been mistakenly painted over.

The gorilla in a pink mask on the wall of the ex-North Bristol Social Club, in Eastville, had been a familiar landmark in the area for more than 10 years.

But the building has recently been turned into a Muslim cultural centre.

New owner Saeed Ahmed assumed it was a regular piece of graffiti and had it painted over. "I thought it was worthless," he said.

He added: "I didn't know it was valuable and that's why I painted over it. I really am sorry if people are upset."


The wall was whitewashed by the new owner of the building who had never heard of Banksy
Local resident Dean Meadows posted a photo of the repainted wall on his blog.

He described the whitewashing of the painting as a "big, big shame".

"It's currently being shared around the world on Twitter, so hopefully Banksy will hear and replace it himself," he said.

Mr Ahmed said he was willing to explore options to see if the whitewash can be removed and the painting restored.




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