Theory and Action II

Now, how about this?

Shame the subtitles are not in English. Still, you can get the idea. I really don’t know how I only came to know about all these events only a few days ago, and it made me think a lot and I just don’t have the time to share all my mixed feelings and thoughts right here right now unfortunately, so I’ll just concentrate on what was perhaps the main thought that I had. Rafael has a point and I take it. I’m not saying I agree with it, and in fact this is too bloody radical, but he did make his point really, really well. Man, I know that street so well, you just wouldn’t imagine!

When I read about the indignant student who said Rafael was a fucking idiot, for “how could he just overgeneralise like that and say that all those students were a bunch of preppy kids and ignore all those hard-working ones who struggle to pay the tuition fees, etc, etc, etc,” it just made me think of the wars. Yes, when a nation or a coalition attacks another nation, they always say they’ve got specific targets, but civilians end up dying inevitably. Yet, it’s for a greater cause, they say… Now, whether that cause is justifiable, is a completely different matter. The thing is, the fact that one is already there, at university, studying hard and struggling to pay the fees, automatically means that s/he has not been denied a chance, unlike the ‘Brazilian untouchables’ who don’t stand a chance. It’s actually pretty hard to grasp it without being an excluded. It is an extreme artistic (yes) manifest testing the limits of transgression and it does have its value nevertheless, and I’m off to bed now. Goodnight.

More on this:

http://www.juxtapoz.com/Features/pixo-a-confusion-the-changing-face-of-brazils-pixa

http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2008/09/when_street_art_really_enters.html

http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/pixacao.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/criptadjan/

“Atack Part 2 (( On the way to Revolution )) We’ll invade a ’shitty’ art gallery ((Choque Cultural )). According to its ideology, it takes cover of underground artists so the place is ‘ours’. We declare total protest. (-place of meeting-) Rescue the phrases. Heil to the ‘pixação’! Art as crime. Crime as art. All for the pixação movement. “