Albo
31st March 2007, 17:23
My dear friends,
Who says democracy doesn't work? With the help of all the people who voted for me last week I have vanquished all of my foes... except one!
That's right - because so many people (including you?) took a moment to vote for my anti-corporate artwork "Business As Usual" last week I am now one of two artists locked in mortal combat in the (cue dramatic sports-broadcast music)
HEAD-TO-HEAD ROUND!
of the Saatchi Gallery's "SHOWDOWN" online art contest.
Now the only thing standing between me and world domination (in a nice, anarchist way) is the personification of evil against whom I am matched; the other winner this week! So get your voting finger ready to click on the "10" star and follow this link and give me what I need, baby:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/...?image_id=10891 (http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?image_id=10891)
- it'll only take a few seconds to vote, and a vote for Albo is a vote for peace, equality, puppies, sunshine, niceness, flowers, and frequent, wholesome group-sex.
The voting runs from Monday March 26th through Sunday April 1st.
If you want to be extra-swell you could pass this message on to any sympathetic email lists, Myspace spaces, blogs, Facebookies, Del.icio.us-es, anarcho-spammers or whatever over crazy virtual shit you're involved with.
In case this is being forwarded to you and you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's the info from last week:
I've got one of my anti-corporate artworks entered in a competition that will be decided by on-line voting. If you have 10 or 15 seconds that you can spare and you want to help me to win this ridiculous contest and get some righteous anarchist art into one of the corporate art-world's major venues please click on the link above and then click on one of the stars (hopefully the "10") and - you're finished! Now wasn't that easy AND fun? After voting you can look through some of the other artwork in the competition or just close the window and get on with your fabulous life.
The work you're rating is part of my long-time project of visualizing the legal fiction of the corporate person as living creature; this particular piece is the sculpture "Business As Usual" seen in a temporary street installation in Philadelphia.
The contest itself is kind of ridiculous - some kind of weird approximation of "democracy" that really just ends up being a contest to see who's best at doing what I'm trying to do here; using e-mail lists to get as many people as possible to vote for them. Maybe Charles Saatchi (the owner of the largest ad agency in the world, whose contest this is) has some kind of satirical intent? I doubt it. He seems to have a sincere interest in art, but what is this supposed to prove, really? Help me to fuck with the hype!
More of my work is always visible here:
http://www.WeAreAllStarsButSomeOfUsAreLookingInTheGutter. com
and the specifically anti-corp stuff is here:
http://www.disincorporated.org
Thanks!
Albo
Who says democracy doesn't work? With the help of all the people who voted for me last week I have vanquished all of my foes... except one!
That's right - because so many people (including you?) took a moment to vote for my anti-corporate artwork "Business As Usual" last week I am now one of two artists locked in mortal combat in the (cue dramatic sports-broadcast music)
HEAD-TO-HEAD ROUND!
of the Saatchi Gallery's "SHOWDOWN" online art contest.
Now the only thing standing between me and world domination (in a nice, anarchist way) is the personification of evil against whom I am matched; the other winner this week! So get your voting finger ready to click on the "10" star and follow this link and give me what I need, baby:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/...?image_id=10891 (http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?image_id=10891)
- it'll only take a few seconds to vote, and a vote for Albo is a vote for peace, equality, puppies, sunshine, niceness, flowers, and frequent, wholesome group-sex.
The voting runs from Monday March 26th through Sunday April 1st.
If you want to be extra-swell you could pass this message on to any sympathetic email lists, Myspace spaces, blogs, Facebookies, Del.icio.us-es, anarcho-spammers or whatever over crazy virtual shit you're involved with.
In case this is being forwarded to you and you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's the info from last week:
I've got one of my anti-corporate artworks entered in a competition that will be decided by on-line voting. If you have 10 or 15 seconds that you can spare and you want to help me to win this ridiculous contest and get some righteous anarchist art into one of the corporate art-world's major venues please click on the link above and then click on one of the stars (hopefully the "10") and - you're finished! Now wasn't that easy AND fun? After voting you can look through some of the other artwork in the competition or just close the window and get on with your fabulous life.
The work you're rating is part of my long-time project of visualizing the legal fiction of the corporate person as living creature; this particular piece is the sculpture "Business As Usual" seen in a temporary street installation in Philadelphia.
The contest itself is kind of ridiculous - some kind of weird approximation of "democracy" that really just ends up being a contest to see who's best at doing what I'm trying to do here; using e-mail lists to get as many people as possible to vote for them. Maybe Charles Saatchi (the owner of the largest ad agency in the world, whose contest this is) has some kind of satirical intent? I doubt it. He seems to have a sincere interest in art, but what is this supposed to prove, really? Help me to fuck with the hype!
More of my work is always visible here:
http://www.WeAreAllStarsButSomeOfUsAreLookingInTheGutter. com
and the specifically anti-corp stuff is here:
http://www.disincorporated.org
Thanks!
Albo