thend
May 28, 2004
On Until 31.07.2004
Citylights presents thend by TM.
There's an obscure old english word: palimpsest. It literally means scratched or scraped again.
It's usually used to refer to a parchment or manuscript where one text has been incompletely erased, and then another written over the top. That is, multiple layers of text. It usually makes me think of layers of posters on a wall.
From luther to the latest pop starlet.
"(no reference to the illegality of the posters' origin need be made)" he said. Not sure whether that means. Don't say 'the artists stole the text from ads'. But. The artists stole the text from ads.
Adbusting, literally. Ad-racking.
Like they don't deserve it. They deserve all this and more.
Let's form an army, and go through the city on our own postmodern crystal night, smashing adshels and stealing every billposter in the city.
The artists are anonymous. Known only as TM.
Brion Gysin and William Burroughs would cut up a page of text and fit it back together so that sentences would jam random. Cut-ups they called them.
Adbusters use the language of the machine to undermine the machine.
And so here it is
What were they saying?
What are they saying?
Is the message lost in the media?
Is the signal getting though?
Or is it just noise?