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April 20, 2008, 12:13 am
Filed under: advertising, life, photography, politics, Rants, Scotland | Tags: fascism, right wing
Filed under: advertising, life, photography, politics, Rants, Scotland | Tags: fascism, right wing
Saw this poster in Salamander St last week.
Not good.
Is this some sort of fascist intelectualism? Because, if it is, it’s probably lost on most people. Myself included
(PS. Having written this post I then found out that it is “art” intended to stimulate debate about global capitalism and Polish immigration. Well, it worked but it’s kind of up itself. – see the explanation in the comments or follow this link to The Collective Gallery’s website.)
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I saw this too Mark and my friend and I were also puzzled as to the meaning/origin of it.
Very strange. How exactly do you “commodify” anything?
If it’s supposed to make us think in a racist fashion then it shouldn’t be posted in a public place. Thought that was the law.
Comment by Di Lewis April 20, 2008 @ 10:19 amI think it’s horrible and at best will aid people in their hatred against others. All that most will take away is “Fight Multiculturalism” = be a racist.
Blah – know any further about the origin or anything?
Comment by Darcie April 20, 2008 @ 11:20 amIt’s art apparently.
http://www.collectivegallery.net/
Work by the collective gallery and this is the explanation…
Freee’s work uses slogans, performances, billboards and publications. They are interested in the traffic between the gallery and the street, between art’s institutions and everyday culture, and between art and politics. As a group they do not make work that addresses issues in a thematic way; instead they aim to divide opinion and challenge debate. In this new work, they aim to use the Polish experience to trigger a much wider debate about the underlying issues of global capitalism that Polish immigration is just one part of.
The exhibition How to be Hospitable will accompany the three Billboard commissions that are being shown within Edinburgh.
Billboards:
Edinburgh City Centre Billboard Locations:
Location 1 – Salamander Street
Location 2 – Abbey Lane
Location 3 – Easter Road end off Brunswick Road
Three new billboard works commissioned by the Collective Gallery’s One Mile Project and created by artist collective Freee are on display in Leith. These striking billboards have been created in response to the recent wave of Polish immigrant workers in the UK and particularly in Edinburgh. They will read: Fight Against Multiculturalism Commodifying Your Difference; Immigrants of the World Unite!; and I am a Foreign Citizen; I am a Local Outsider; I am a Migrant Worker.
Comment by markgorman April 20, 2008 @ 11:34 amAye, right enough!
Comment by Di Lewis April 21, 2008 @ 10:44 amIt is shite though
Comment by Doug April 23, 2008 @ 5:44 am