I’ve found an article about Iran’s National Olympic Committee who claims that London’s olympic logo spells out “Zion.” Actually, this obsession of “looking awry” has become a tradition. I remember the same claim against ‘Coca-Cola’ logo: one may spells out the arabic words consisting the message: “Neither Mohammed, Nor Mecca” by looking the english logo-type [...]
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Iran Objects to ‘Racist’ London 2012 Olympics Logo
Posted: December 13, 2011 by nimaes in The Museum, The PoliticalTags: The Olympics
Olympic police (re)action figure
Posted: December 13, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Museum, The PoliticalTags: olympics
Here is an interesting image I found and the blog link it originates from. Dan Hancox blog
Museum = Prison by Monty Catsin
Posted: November 12, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Museum, The Political, The Prisonthe prison does not exist
Posted: October 27, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Political, The PrisonTags: Architecture, Prison art, Simulacra
As a visitor/viewer in Wormwood Scrubs it felt like a simulacra of a prison rather than an actual penitentiary. The initial processing was as if subjected to a bizarre ticket system, where restrictions on height are replaced with restrictions on objects. The ticket office as the security station providing tokens (keys) to the attraction ahead. [...]
Jeremy Deller ‘I wish I’d thought of that’
Posted: October 27, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Political, The Prison, UncategorizedTags: Folk art archive, Jeremy Deller, Prison art
Yesterday evening a few of us found ourselves in an audience with Turner prize winning artist Jeremy Deller. A bit of history, Deller never went art school instead he studied Art History and so ‘he never had the traditional trajectory expected of art students college > studio> gallery’. His work never involves ‘making a mess’ [...]
Parachuting / Dialogue, Intervention, Collaboration…
Posted: October 25, 2011 by casualagent in The Political, UncategorizedTags: collaboration, dialogue, intervention
Parachuting How does one recognize the difference between actively engaging in a ‘dialogue’ vs. actively inviting oneself to a dialogue? Does a dialogue need to be ‘encouraged’, or does it fail to be a true communication precisely once it becomes encouraged and promoted? Doesn’t the promotion of it stand exactly for its immediate ossification; a [...]
