International Sticker Awards praise politics in public spaces
By Leslie Dreyer, January 30, 2008 Comments (4)
The Grassi Museum in Leipzig is hosting the International Sticker Awards through February 17. This exhibition shows some of the latest political, ironic, abstract, and artistic social commentaries directly stuck on parts of the urban environment.
According to Matthias Mueller, Matthias Marx and Andreas Ullrich, three young artists who supervised the show, "Stickers transform the road into a democratic adventure playground." They are a cheap and simple medium with which one can interact, react, interfere, resignify, and contribute to public space. Due to stickers' ephemeral nature, The Sticker Awards were created as an annual competition to promote and document the development of this art form. For more info, visit the Grassi Museums website (German only), or check out rebelart.net for photos and insight to other political art happenings in Germany and beyond.
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I'm seriously digging the picture posted here! I wrote a little article about Culture Jamming not too long ago, and would have loved to have known about the sticker awards then. Thanks for the great links....
Excellent post, amazing image...keep up the great work Leslie...
Great post -- is there any way for the public to get stickers so we can add our 2 cents in every city worldwide to the cultural discussion of dissent? I would love to start stickering on local transit advertising ...
@ Michael
Why not make your own? You can buy sticker paper (or a lot of people use the free priority mail stickers from the post office) and you can hand draw or screen print your image onto the sticker that way. You can also print out your image and glue it to the surface of the sticker paper. There are tutorials online that cover this more in-depth: it's not too hard to get started!
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