ARTIVIST : creative by any means necessary!
An indepedent action involving artists has been taking the to the streets by storm with project works = urban/ pop/ graff/ paste/ punked/ projected//
Prominent street artist Ha Ha aka Regan Tamanui has a wall in Sydney getting the "Guilty of ART!" treatment with the strong 7 layer stencil of Tame Iti as a prelude to a forthcoming painting trip through the North Island of Aotearoa//
Images have on the been created by various artists around the raids & subsequent trials of Tame Iti & the "Uremera Four"... along with Ha Ha there are images from Frizzell & Weston, DT, ARTIVIST & others...
“Yeah Right” is a satirical adaptation of the popular Tui Beer advertising campaign that uses sarcasm in a humorous social commentary. In this artwork Mike Weston and Otis Frizzell present their version of Tui’s iconic ad, substituting an AK47 assault rifle for the usual perch branch. In Yeah Right, Tutu replaces both the Tui Beer branding, and also the social statement that is usually featured in the Tui beer billboard.
Dr Tutu is the name Tame Iti adopted when DJing on his various alternative radio slots. It features in the title of works Tututables, and Tututime 2004, and the logo featured on the painted canvas works exhibited. In Maori, (and most if not all Polynesian languages also) Tutu has a multiplicity of meanings such as ‘revolution’, ‘to meddle’, ‘arson’ and ‘sedition’. Tutu and the glyphic logo formed by the inverted numerals 22 (see below) have been recurring motifs in Weston Frizzell’s work since 2004. The message it conveys relates directly to the arrest of Tame Iti and other Tuhoe members under the terrorism suppression act. If it were spelled out it might read: “A terrorist revolution? Yeah, right.” Yeah Right is a fine art archival inkjet print on Hahnemule 100% cotton rag paper, edition of 180.// http://blog.prints.co.nz/2012/02/weston-frizzell-ask-who-are-real.html
"Guilty of ART!"
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