Preview: The Brooklyn Shelf Life Project Launches at BAM Tonight in Brooklyn
This article was posted by Daniel Feral 11 months, 6 hours, 45 minutes ago.
Showpaper’s Brooklyn Shelf Life zine and newsbox distribution project launches tonight at Brooklyn Academy of Music, featuring customized newsboxes by UFO/William Thomas Porter, Faust/Cash4, Leon Reid IV/Noah Sparkes, and more.
The six year old DIY Showpaper is a free full-color newsprint broadside of the same name which lists every all-ages DIY show in the NYC/tri-state area. For distribution, in many spots they use their own newsboxes around Brooklyn. On one side of the broadsheet they print a full-color poster by a current, local artist. Some of the artists have been Cost, Cash4, Mark Mothersbaugh, and more.
A couple of years ago the curator and filmmaker Andrew H. Shirley of The Superior Bugout suggested having graffiti writers and street artists customize the newsboxes for an exhibition and then put them on the street. The show was called The Community Serviced. The show was a big hit and even inspired a second exhibition last year.
Recently Showpaper won an award from BAM that paid for five more sculptural newboxes. Showpaper was chosen out of one hundred submissions because of their dedication to printed matter and the arts in Brooklyn. Over the span of one year these boxes will house, along with Showpaper, a periodically rotating series of independently printed new work by 48 different publishers and artists, curated by Jesse Hlebo of SWILL CHILDREN with SHOWPAPER and PRINTED MATTER. The launch round will include Sumi Ink Club, W/—, Felicia Atkinson, Asher Penn.
Please come out to see the finished newsbox sculptures tonight at BAM, have a drink and meet the artists. Meanwhile, UFO 907 sent us some preview shots of the piece that he’s making with WIlliam Thomas Porter, the metal sculptor and bike mutator…
Cryptic messages from space...
Text: Daniel Feral
Photo: UFO 907
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© Daniel Feral & 12ozProphet - Tuesday June 19, 2012 at 06:00 AM
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wow, did jim joe do this art? did the nickelodeon graphics team do this art? What a fucking waist of good materials. Another waistless post
Showpaper, hmmm, arent these the guys who (along with COST) ratted out someone for taking one of their precious boxes off the street?
http://gothamist.com/2010/12/20/stolen_newspaper_box_recovered.php
Oh yes, they were the ones who went to the cops and filed a police report on another writer because the writer did something they didn’t approve of.
Showpaper isn’t a group of writers, but they want to capitalize off of writer’s “street cred”, and then go running to the cops when shit gets “too real” for them. When you want to be down with a culture, you have to play by the rules, not make up your own. They want all the hype and attention that comes along with graffiti, but they break the cardnal rule of graff at the drop of a hat ( and have made it clear that they think that what they did was the right thing, and that they would do it again). Shame on any writer who associates with these lames,.and shame on 12oz for supporting these blatant snitches. Go get up on the streets, not on some gay metal box.
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