Josh MacPhee: Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape
Posted on November 11, 2005
Filed Under News, U.S, East Coast, D.I.Y., Discussion |
Josh MacPhee the man behind Just Seeds is giving a talk called:
Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape
A Talk and Slideshow by Josh MacPhee
Novemeber 20th, 7PM
Bluestockings Bookstore,
172 Allen St.,
NYC
212.777.6028
Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape is a presentation about just that, how our visual environment controls our social space from the top down, and ways to contest this. We will begin with a discussion of how corporations and the state use our environment, the “visual landscape,” to create a monologue of control, and how this monologue frames our thoughts and behaviors. A slide show will be presented displaying an extremely broad array of styles and techniques of intervening in this system, spanning across both decades and continents. These images provoke peoples’ imaginations as to what a real public dialogue on the street might look like and show how possible it is. We will then discuss what seems to work or not work in terms of communicating on the street.
Fortress America poster by Jon Paul Bail available at the Just Seeds online store
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Josh is the greatest, a real inspiration, and gives great presentations. Not to be missed!
he’s got a sense of humour too!
For an amazing analysis and perspective from an intelligent humyn being, show up.
also buy art from Justseeds,
then design a People’s History Poster,
and if you’re still in the mood to make stuff
Mail Josh pieces for the numerous projects and
callouts that he’s facilitating!
total powerhouse of a person,
exposing us all to amazing work!