My “I’m Sorry (George W. Bush)” sticker is included in an exhibition entitled STUCK UP, A Selected History of Alternative & Pop Culture Told Through Stickers, which opens on January 20, 2012, and runs through March 3, 2012, at Maxwell Collette Gallery in Chicago. The exhibition, which was curated by DB Burkeman, draws from his extensive personal collection and: “provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore the expanding role that stickers have played in popular culture over the past four decades. ‘STUCK UP…’ features stickers from Street Art legends (Banksy, Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, KAWS), and internationally lauded contemporary…
Surveillance, monitoring, and control stickers in Berlin
In 2006, the European Union adopted “Directive 2006/24/EC,” authorizing member countries the ability to obtain communications data including source, destination, type, date, time, length, device, and location of device. Data could be retained for six months to two years depending on certain variables. The measures were put in place in the name of national and international security and in response to acts of terrorism, including the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, train bombings in Madrid in 2004, and bombings in the public transport system in London in 2005. In Germany, the…
Berlin Day One
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- Make a comment on Berlin Day One
Keeping track of where I was, is, and will be. Yesterday I walked a loop from Greifswalder, right onto Danzinger, right onto Landsberger Allee, which turned into Platz de Vereinten Nationen, whch turned into Mollstrasse, which turned into Greifswalder again. Lots of political stickers, mostly for antifa demonstrations, one for Warmlaufen fuer den Widerstand – Atomkraft Kaltstellen! One for a demonstration on November 12 in Berlin that says “Freiheit statt Angst, stoppt den uberwachungswahn,” which translates into “Freedom not Fear, Stop the Surveillance.” I found one sticker referring to a controversy regarding Thor Steiner clothing that you can read about…