Patrick Sweeney “DO !T” 2009
My contribution to Ready or Not It’s 2010, a participatory public art project allowing “artists the chance to wrest curatorial control back from institutions empowered by years of exclusionary practices.”
“DO !T” utilizes an image from Greek riots protesting the police murder of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos and text similar to Nike’s famous “Just Do It” slogan. The piece celebrates do-it-yourself culture and urges viewers to take to the streets themselves, re-appropriating corporate cultural images for subversive ends and confronting privatization through piracy, direct action, and communalism.
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