On the heels of the last post about Adbusters legal victory, here's a film that explores some similar themes and which looks quite intriguing. Tim Jackson directs Radical Jesters, spotlighting "11 hoaxers, culture jammers, performers, Situationists, and Interventionists who find entertaining ways to provoke thinking and discussion on a range of important cultural issues from the use of public space to feminism to advertising and celebrity."
Watch it online (the preview is embedded below and links have been added for each section) or buy it for only $10 at RadicalJesters.com.
From the site:
John Hargrave, Alan Abel, and Charlie Todd’s Improv Everywhere practice the fine art of the media hoax and the urban prank. Each puts a unique spin on the work they do while opening a space between what is real and what we imagine as real. [Watch hoaxes]
The Guerrilla Girls and Dyke Action Machine use Graphic media to insinuate themselves into public space. The term "culture jamming" was coined by Kalle Lasn in the book Culture Jam. Lassn , the founder of the anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters, is on a mission to intervene in the media spectacle and work against our habits of blind consumerism. [Watch culture jamming]
Re-appropriating media and reclaiming public space is central to the activities of the Surveillance Camera Players, the Institute for Infinitely Small Things, and the Billboard Liberation Front. [Watch situationists]
Performance Art and Street Theater are probably the oldest and purest of radical art forms. Performance Art may have started with Diogenes of Sinope and the 20th and 21st centuries includes “Aktionism”, Happenings, Fluxus Art, and performances on stages, museums, galleries, and in the streets. It is global in scope. [Watch performances]
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radical jesters
Very nice re-posting of this movie. You're good!!
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