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.

