NEW BOOK RELEASE
Urban Guerrilla Protest showcases the ways and means of
individual, subversive protest actions. Featuring over 90 artists and
initiatives from around the world, the book provides insights into the
resources that are being used to place activist messages in the heart
of the everyday, documenting the rise of the media-guerrilla during the
decade spanning 1995-2005.
All over the world, activists have disseminated their messages
using an array of methods targeted to grab the attention of the public,
as well as the perpetrators of the actions that have instigated the
protestors.
Berlin-based graphic designer Ake Rudolf has compiled an
international collection of successful and poignant actions; its design
and bilingual English/German layout is an homage to the Do It Yourself
attitude that all of the examples champion in the name of questioning
corporate hegemony.
Examinations of Reverend Billy, the Yes Men, The Institute for
Applied Autonomy, The Billboard Liberation Front, The Ruckus Society,
Yomango, Surveillance Camera Players and more than 90 other examples
from all over the US, UK, Australia, China, Argentina and elsewhere
illuminate how these messages are heard, and in many cases incite
change.
In the words of Rudolf: “Subversive communication practices mediate
disobedience and visual subordination. They create new meaning,
providing the public with new perspectives for how they view the world,
which all too often differs from how huge corporations want the public
to view the world.”
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