Workshop on Culturejamming and Creative Dissent
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Artist/curator Marshall Weber opens his extensive archive of thirty years of innovative printed materials designed to provoke, disturb and disrupt the status quo to hands-on exploration.
Marshall Weber
Printed Pranks and Protest: Artist-Activist Publication
June 30 - July 4, 2003
Artist/curator Marshall Weber opens his extensive archive of thirty years of innovative printed materials designed to provoke, disturb and disrupt the status quo to hands-on exploration. He provides a veritable feast of tasty tools and tactics for creative dissent of great interest to both artists working in printed matter and to activists trying to get the word out. Billboard
manipulation, books, emails, forgeries, handouts, posters, public signage, simulacra, stickers, 'zines, and other forms of both creation and manipulation of printed material will be explored. Classroom presentations in numerous media will be accompanied by class and individual culturejamming projects.
Marshall Weber was a founder, in 1989, of Artists Television Access in San Francisco and of the Brooklyn Artists Alliance in 1999. As a curator, Weber designs national multi-site collaborations that bring together artists, social service organizations and the public to explore issues of social justice. He has organized projects concerning gentrification and housing rights ("Who's the Landlord?," San Francisco, New York, 1989-1991), penal reform ("Correcting Corrections," Wisconsin, 1994-1997) and is now directing "...even the birds were on fire..." a tour of
artworks by New York artists responding to the aftermath of 9/11. His work in book art, collage, poetry, performance/installation, and video focuses on creating intimate and tactile anti-spectacles as antidotes to the manipulative virtual spectacles of corporate culture. He is best known for his endurance performance work, including a solo recitation of the entire Bible in eighty hours.
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Visual Studies Workshop Media Center
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