Thursday 12 February 2015

Freee

The artists' collective, Freee, have an interesting practice developing playful forms of political text.

Here's a recent piece – a section from the "Manifesto for Counter-Hegemonic Art", which appropriates and "hacks" Marx's famous Communist Manifesto.

http://www.hewittandjordan.com/freee/manifesto/freee_manifesto_p1.pdf

More on the manifesto here:
http://freee.org.uk/2007/01/12/the-freee-art-collective-manifesto-for-a-counter-hegemonic-art/

Here are a couple of further images of their practice:-

Free Collective, Advertising Wants To Convert Our Desire For A Better Life Into A Desire To Buy Something, billboard, 2008.

Freee Collective, The Economic Function of Public Art is to Increase the Value of Private Property, 2004.



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