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Tag Teams Sitting on the Fence

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Palestinians artists and occidental sympathisers have adopted the urban portion of the Israel security Fence as a jumbo billboard canvas despite divisions of consensus among the West Bank art community.The  political aspect though toxic and flammable, does act as a framework for the artists to express themselves outside the limiting effect of  a pressure sealed society from within and without. The mural art permits a form of secularism that is plausible because of the Palestinian existential struggle. The art can be categorized as activist, however the pilgrimage of  western artists has created  an appropriation of form  and cannibalized identity . Its a West bank version of Slumdog  where the golden minarets of Mc Graffiti can accomodate art slumming  westerners in air conditioned comfort. The fence paintings  evoke Adam Smith’s invisible hand of capitalism  co-oping and managing  any social movement by  pacifying the rough edges into a shiny marketable commodity.

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Posted by Dave on Mar 31st, 2009 and filed under Miscellaneous. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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