Halloween this year is on a Tuesday so its hard for people to know when exactly to celebrate it – we had 20 or so Trick-or-Treaters Saturday night so that tells you the kids vote in this part of Brooklyn.
Of course with the folks we have running the White House, every day feels like Halloween. “Here, I’ll trick you with this POPULIST costume, and my treat will be to take whats left of your middle class chocolate.”
Trick or Trick!
It doesn’t help that Tabloid TV loves the “Zombies on Parade” – they are like sugar addicts dancing for eyeballs and advertising dollars.
But from a Street Art and public performance perspective, New York is a thrill, a regular monster mash! The East Village parade 2017 on Tuesday will have puppets, 53 bands performing different types of music, dancers, artists, and thousands of New Yorkers in costume. Be safe out here ya’ll.
Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Karl Addison, Bifido, City Kitty, Denis Ouch, Don Rimx, Elliott Routledge, Julien de Casabianca, Julieta, Lungebox, Nevercrew, Outings Project, Revok, Sipros, Strayones, and TurtleCaps.
Top image: Elliott Routledge (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Revok – MSK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Denis Ouch (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Portraits of a clown king. Denis Ouch (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Strayones brings out Cat In The Hat. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sculptural Street Artist Strayones tells us that the story represented here is a critique of “how business people and wealthy men are making us step over the edge into the abyss”.
Nevercrew. “Dimensional recipe”. Los Angeles. Part 1 (photo © Nevercrew)
“Dimensional recipe” is a series of three interconnected mural paintings realized in Los Angeles (USA), curated by AnneLaure Lemaitre (FatCap), 2017.
About the work:
This is a work about mankind’s relation with creation, about the mutual influences between creativity and reality and the anthropological loop
that originates from this continuous correlation. It is about the feeling of being part of a system, of being a participant and being able to view it from a certain point of view, for what it is and for what it could be.”
This is a work about mankind’s relation with creation, about the mutual influences between creativity and reality and the anthropological loop
that originates from this continuous correlation. It is about the feeling of being part of a system, of being a participant and being able to view it from a certain point of view, for what it is and for what it could be.”
Nevercrew. “Dimensional recipe”. Los Angeles. Part 2 (photo © Nevercrew)
Nevercrew. “Diposing Machine”. Melano, Switzerland. Part 1 (photo © Nevercrew)
“Disposing Machine” is the new mural from Nevercrew in Melano, Switzerland for Artrust. Their statement:
“Habits, attitudes, principles and awareness are conditioned by reality, and reality is conditioned by the perception everyone has of it. The position of humankind in its environment, in its World, is at the same
time part of its nature and a point of view from which to perceive it.
Systems are then interpretations, a way to give human shape to
something that’s not necessarily made for it, as well as a way to decide
which shapes to give and how to read them. As reality could be built and
altered by systems, so nature could then risk to be detached from
human sensing; an human reconstruction of something that exists
outside this given shape but that still is directly subjected to each action
that’s made on it.”
This image of Dreamers reminds us of our grandfathers and grandmothers and the stories of refugees all over the world overcoming obstacles to make a better life. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dom Rimx (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Collaboration between Bifido and Julieta in Lecce, Italy. (photo © Bifido)
The Italian Street Artist Bifido and Spanish artists Juelieta completed this fantastical work in Lecce, Italy this week for the 167 Art Project. Bifido tells us that the title is “First Fire” and it “talks about the possibility to love each other in a fantastic way, and it focuses on the importance of play in our lives.”
Collaboration between Bifido and Julieta in Lecce, Italy. (photo © Bifido)
Turtlecaps . City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
An atmospheric Addison Karl . “Okchamali Nebulae”. Washington, DC. (photo © Addison Karl)
Lungebox (photo © Jaime Rojo)
One question: what is a furring channel? Sipros for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Outings Project in Paris. (photo © Julien de Casabianca)
Outings Project in Paris. (photo © Julien de Casabianca)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Brooklyn, NY. October 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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