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#Im Sick Of This Shit – Social Activism

Wesley Pepper — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:24:04 +0000

The Concept: Brainchild of South African renowned fine artist Wesley Pepper (www.wesleypepper.com) and in celebration of www.consciousness.co.za Magazine’s 10 year anniversary, the concept stems from the Street Art Consciousness that Art is Not Exclusive! That art is a verb and not a noun. We are producing a commercial product with the aim to galvanize a specific consciousness [...]

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Wesley Pepper – The Open City Project – Infecting the City Project 2015

Wesley Pepper — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:50:08 +0000

Description of the Project: Our project approaches city space through the social reality of the streets as a dynamic space of experimentation and vitality. We are interested in the people that use, create and imagine the vernacular meshwork of history, race, culture, language and aesthetics that make the streets. By taking creativity out of regulated [...]

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Street Art as the Art of Action

Wesley Pepper — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:12:10 +0000

Source: http://eng.partizaning.org (Igor Ponosov) According to popular view, street art evolved from American graffiti. But this is incorrect, except for some forms like street logos (where artists substitute their nicknames with logos), which became popular in Europe in the late 1980’s. Long before, there was a completely separate process in France, rooted in different forms [...]

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Infecting The City – The Open City Project by Wesley Pepper

Wesley Pepper — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:32:43 +0000

Source: https://www.thundafund.com/opencity The Open City Project approaches city space through the social reality of the streets as a dynamic space of experimentation and vitality. The project will see the construction and installation at the Festival of eight wooden structures with sixteen primary artworks. Over the primary works will be layered text, photos, images, maps of [...]

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