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Threedom The scale of things Family, friends and relationships shape and 3 is the magic number: MY CHARACTERISTICS mould us into who we are. Three things that I most like about myself (make a mark on the scale where you feel you stand) 1 But social media can trick us into thinking that 2 Private Open Placid Headstrong their multitude of connections are more valuable 3 Considered Spontaneous Trusting Jealous than the small number of bonds that we hold with Three things that I would like to change about myself 1 Who looks outside, Curious Cautious Passive Active those that really matter in our life. 2 Organised Disorganised Patient Impatient You dreams; Se 3 quel We lose out on the feeling of really bonding with Nervous Conﬁdent Practical Impractical to th Three things that make me happy e Who’s here with me? those close to us, really missing them, missing who looks inside, Conventional Original Proud Humble 1 b their physical presence and the things that make 2 awakes Contented Discontented Bold Fearful estse 3 llin them who they are and what they mean to us. Ambitious Unambitious Compassionate Indi(erent g Carl Jung book Three things that give me purpose Careless Careful Decisive Procrastinator That feeling of longing that used to make us write 1 2 Conforming Independent Dependable Inconsistent B letters to each other on paper is lost. 3 U Punctual Relaxed Thrifty Extravagant RN A Three things that I’d like to change in my life F Loner Joiner Tolerant Judgemental TE 1 R 2 WRI 3 TING ~ 26 ~ ~ 62 ~ ~ 63 ~

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Going once at £860,000, going twice, gone! A cheer bubbles up from the This is the impenetrable process of value. Like a ten pound note, (even with crowd, followed by a shrill alarm and stunned silence as an ornate frame lady Diana’ s face on it) a Banksy print has no intrinsic value whatsoever . But appears to defecate a version of ‘Girl with Balloon’ in a spectacular diarrhea the collective belief in it’ s value is as real as a punch in the kidneys. V alue of canvas ribbons. A European woman drops her chicken sandwich. A is a thing without substance that has substantial ef fects. Ef fects like being journalist quietly ejaculates. evicted or having bailif fs at the door . Sotheby’ s auction house in the heart of Mayfair , a cathedral of haute This is why people get so angry about T racey Emin’ s bed - because they bourgeoisie power , an art shop for the global elite. Situated in the square know it is no dif ferent to their own bed, but they cannot sell their own bed you don’ t want to land on when you’re playing Monopoly , in a slice of for a million pounds, they can barely sell their own labour for a few hundred London dotted with galleries that sell the most expensive pretty things quid a month. Nobody really knows how value works in any market, but in known to humanity . It’ s a far cry from the rough end of Bristol, where Fine Art in particular it’ s internal contradictions are highly visible. the DryBreadZ Crew once forwent the luxury of margarine in favour of The Fine Art market seems ridiculous to us peasants, it seems like a good spending money on spray cans. But now , it’ s precisely the place you would kicking might bring it down, like a house of pretentious cards. go to buy an original Banksy . ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ can be seen as a good kicking performed A European woman, who does not wish to be named, like Banksy , upon the hipster art market of Los Angeles. Mr Brainwash is a sort of innocently splurged a million on a Banksy original. (W ell, it was a much Frankenstein’ s monster , created to take the piss out of LA art buyers, but replicated original. But what does original even mean these days?) And it was a joke that backfired because somehow his work acquired value anyway , it soon became an original when it self destructed immediately through the very process of making the film. after the hammer fell. A shredder built into the frame chewed up half of the ‘Girl with Balloon’ before it jammed, much to the annoyance of Banksy who To be fair , Banksy never claimed to be against making money . In fact, he’ s claimed it had worked properly in rehearsal, two years previously . rarely stated any firm position on anything, being a trickster god like Loki of f the A vengers. She may have dropped her chicken sandwich in shock, but the mysterious buyer soon realised that the whole af fair had ef fectively tripled the value of There has always been a touch of Robin Hood to Banksy’ s manipulation the work. Sotheby’ s turned it all into a publicity coup, saying that it was the of the art markets, and it makes sense in the tradition of situationist rebel first time a work of art had been produced at auction, and taking the liberty entrepreneurs like Malcolm Mclaren, to play the capitalists at their own of re-christening the piece, ‘Love is in the Bin’. game while simultaneously sawing of f the branch you are sitting on. He has championed other artists, bringing them along with him, at events like Cans But why tho? Banksy of fered this Picasso quote to the Independent Festival in London. He has used his wealth to support anarchist groups in “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge” The whole shenanigan was Russia, and to direct media attention to Palestinian suf fering. described as ‘V iral Performance Art’. At first glance it is an attack on the art establishment of which Banksy has apparently accidentally become a There is a long history of radical, auto-destructive art, going back to part. At second glance it looks like an incredibly cynical marketing ploy from Man Ray and the Dadaists of the early 20th century . His ‘Object to be a superbrand who actively supports and sustains his participation in the fine Destroyed’ was a metronome with a photograph of an eye attached to it. It art market by running a Pest Control print authentication service. was stolen from an exhibition in 1957 and shot with a handgun. But there is an even more relevant precedent from 1994, the KLF burned a million But maybe there is a glance between the first and the second? A kind of pounds on an island of f Scotland. Where Banksy failed to destroy the value squinty eyed, daft looking moment of clarity , that might take us away from of his work, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty successfully destroyed all the the central paradox - that attacks on the hypocrisy of the art market revitalise value gleaned from their success as pop group the KLF . Sadly , nobody got the art market. Attacks on the commodity , make the best commodities. the punchline. Not so very long ago, Banksy was an outsider , a bona fide broke ass In neither case has the spectacular society suf fered any kind of lasting rebel in the wilderness preaching against spectacular society . So, when damage. These radical gestures not only bounced of f the thick skin of ‘art did Banksy first become a producer of dizzyingly expensive fine art? In the as commodity’, but they arguably fed into it, making it stronger . This is the twilight of the T wentieth Century he was picking up national recognition in paradox so well illustrated in Charlie Brooker’ s Black Mirror episode ‘Fifteen the press, but it was after the millennium that his street art began to work Million Merits’. A young man subverts a reality TV show by threatening to it’ s way indoors. kill himself live on TV with a shard of glass, he buys himself the time and Between 2002 and 2006 Banksy pursued a vigorous courtship of the space to speak his heartfelt message of anti-establishment rage. hipster art world, starting with Existencilism in LA. In the mid-noughties Of course, they give him his own show and a penthouse suite, he spends street art, in part thanks to the ‘Banksy Ef fect’, was in it’ s halcyon days. the rest of his days holding a shard of glass to his own throat and raging When celebs like Christina Aguilera started buying his work, the value against the machine to the delight of his audience. His rebellion is no longer soared. She spent a mere 50 grand on half a dozen prints. The wheels an acceptable level of threat, it’ s an essential element of the system’ s were set in motion and the mysterious mechanisms of the art market took survival. It somehow stops the flies from struggling in the web, to know that over . By 2007 you could pay six times what Christina paid for a Bansky in one fly has escaped on their behalf. 2006. The value of his work has continued to grow and grow . BANKSY P AR IS 1968 R EVISITED In the spectacle the eye meets only anti-art pranks and their price tags. Ceci n’est pas un Banksy .

Banksy went to Paris in 2018 to paint a collection of murals with a loose The most significant thing about 1968 was perhaps the ideas that drove it theme of the migration crisis in Europe. We live in a time when there are - they didn’ t ask for a Communist State or slightly better working conditions more displaced people in the world than at the end of W orld War II. In spite - they asked for new world, one in which everyday life would be completely NEW of brief flowerings of compassion, Europe is generally getting more hostile dif ferent from the new consumerist capitalism and one in which Imperialism towards asylum seekers. would come to an end. This widespread understanding that Imperial Europe had created the global inequality that leads to the migrant crisis of today , has EDITION It was also the fifty year anniversary of the 1968 student uprising in Paris. slipped out of the public conversation about migration. Banksy is perhaps You probably wouldn’ t notice. It’ s not the kind of thing that gets much press. trying to bring it back. While everybody goes batshit trying to stir up misty eyed nostalgia for the First W orld W ar , only a few lefty intellectuals will raise a glass of beaujolais Banksy makes a direct reference to ‘Mai ‘68’ with his mural near a migrant for the 1968 riots. centre in Paris. The eight has fallen down, landing on a rat’ s head, looking suspiciously like Minnie Mouse’ s ears with her distinctive bow . Is this a barbed Briefly , tens of thousands of students and staf f from the major Paris critique of France’ s failure to live up to the anti-consumerist ideals of 1968? universities occupied university buildings, marched and clashed with the After the revolution fizzled out, the road chosen - the Disneyfication of Paris. police. Then there were wildcat strikes and factory occupations on a massive Banksy scale. It was the closest thing to a revolution the modern western world has Has Banksy been reading Jean Baudrillard, the postmodernist philosopher , yet seen. who was working at the University of Nanterre, May 1968, and who later You Are An Acceptable Level Of Threat Gary Shove & Patrick Potter

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D Abandoned Planet States of Decay The definitive document of Urbex New York & America’s cinematic abandoned photography forgotten North East Andre Govia Daniel Barter & Daniel Marbaix

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www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk UnSanctioned Out of Sight The Art on New York Streets Urban Art in Abandoned Spaces RomanyWG Katherine ‘Luna Park’ Lorimer

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Lee Crutchley Colouring Book

Braindead Colouring for Exhausted People

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Monty Cantsin Small Interventions in the Big City Isaac Cordal

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