the nomorecars project

pics/press

  • before
  • during
  • after
  • text
  • press release
  • video release forms

description

VISION: This project aims to stimulate arts-based cultural criticism by integrating a theoretical curriculum of un-vertising, culture jamming, and creative dissent—with the material task of ‘violating’ a sacred American icon in order to create something much more engaging, personal, unique, and worthwhile.

Additionally, it aims to help students cultivate practices of documentation, in the arts and the academy, through the use of an online photo-sharing group which bridges distance between collaborators, and

Lastly, the written component (every student collaborator is asked to hand-write a 400-word statement describing the ideological contribution of their artistic contribution or elected alternative assignment) is designed

METHOD:

On November 28, 2005, I left my car and a brief set of requirements at Windsor High School, with Lynda Nugent (artist and teacher) and the WHS Art Club in charge of

Student participants

OUTCOME: A mobile sculpture (art car) intended to function as a public critique of commodity fetishism, consumer identity, and the cult of the automobile. , and ‘visually transgressing’ against norms of assimilationism and conflict avoidance in the public realm.

culture jamming links

 

bumper sticker links