Fight with a snail

Mural, -and. (special.) - a work of wall fine art, monumental painting. (Ozhegov's dictionary)

Graffiti - just like any image - is a call for discussing an important topic for the artist. According to the properties of graffiti, it can be similar to a check, SMS, a love letter, political propaganda, caricature, climbing, advertising, prayer, a cry of despair, a symbolic seizure of the territory, communication with the transcendental, insult, threat, the life of saints (including holy rappers). If the above is the above, the graffiti museum will remain for some reason meaningless drawings for us and the so-called "just art", which, as you know, does not happen.

The Kyiv walls began to be covered with custom graffiti the size of a wall - murals. Residents of the city are sorting out stereotypical opinions about murals, in any case, finding an occasion to be proud of their city. A Murals Murals Kyivmural.com has already been created. While the people of Kiev continue to search for evidence of their own uniqueness, I think that such pictures are on the city walls and why they are needed.

There are a lot of myths about murals.

For example, that murals make the city unique. Maybe once it was. But now the ants are depersonalized by cities, helping corporations and other globalization soldiers in this matter.

Someone thinks that Murali is a sign of a modern city. Murali - monumental images - this is not just known, it is an exceptionally ancient form of art. If you did not have murals in the city, and now they have appeared, it does not mean a step forward. This means that in your outback there is still no murals.

Is Murali a sign of a free society? Murals are most effectively used by tyrants and dictators. Legal monumental art requires the complicity of the administrative resource and serious investment. Legal murals differ from the radical quality of materials, they are not killed, they are not imprisoned and they do not write out fines. The artist is included in the consumption system for the legal murals and is built to a high step. He receives a lot of bonuses: a fee, fame, new orders, attention of media, a line in biography, resource contacts and gallery happiness. Legal ants are not dangerous for the authorities. This is a low-budget way to maintain the status quo. Legal murals - a sign of a bad ruler who clings to the chair, is invested in state propaganda. That is why a colored rash appears on the walls of cities on command - a symptom of capitalism and patriarchal decomposition. Legal murals wean people to react to the free voices of the streets.

But what if residents of the surrounding houses like Mural and they agreed to its manufacture? There are a lot of reasons why the inhabitants of the surrounding houses agree to certain things, come to terms with evil, choose the so -called. Less evil or become accomplices of the stranglers of freedoms. You can not approach images in public space only from the perspective of "like - do not like." Who can decide where, what and when should a free artist be drawn?

Maybe the murals make the urban environment less aggressive? The images approved by the patriarchal power make the city more patriarchal, more aggressive, more conservative. Graffiti, in principle, cannot make the urban environment less aggressive, since it is always, and even more so if it is legally, provokes a social conflict. Graffiti is a painful method of achieving or preventing social changes. This is the reason why graffiti is not a feminist art: the methods and goals of graffiti are far from the ideals of equality. Radical feminism uses not only graffiti, but others, considered more feminist, types of street policies: Yarnbombing, renaming streets and monuments, non -aggressive and non -editing initiatives. Historically, there are a lot of patriarchal men among the graffitichiki, often groups of graffiti are physically conflict for space. There are countries in which graffiti is persecuted. But both levels of interaction (the state-graffitors, graffitors-graffiti) are an desk-conflicts that are beyond the scope of feminist discourse, beyond the scope of work on the ideas about a progressive society.

What if this art comes out of the museums on the streets? This is the question of what art, political art, anarchist art, patriarchal art, and permitted art are. Festivals, specially fenced zones, galleries, legal walls cannot be called an excellent place for expressing truly radical views. Art never went from the streets to museums.

Graffiti is a method that marginals and mainstream, loners and communities effectively use throughout human history. The mainstream graffiti, based on capital, supports oppression and injustice.

However, there is good news. Expensive graffiti is not the most effective graffiti. As Killer Danila said, power is in truth. Remember fairy tales about dragons? The average dragon-breeder, of his own free will or for coercion, with magical weapons or without it, along with magical assistants or without it, was supposed to go against a deliberately invincible monster, and for some reason, our children's sympathies have always been on the side of the hero. Because of our impudence and stupidity, we wanted to support the winner. They don’t write fairy tales about the losers, and in childhood we willingly put on the main character, on the hero from the cover of the book. In reality, not everyone who won a short distance is a winner in a historical sense.

The value of the adult world is not to win, but to fight frantically. The marginalia of medieval books laughed at the cowardice of contemporaries, portraying the battles not with dragons, but with snails. Before daring to oppose the global dragon, it was necessary to defeat the inner dragon, choose life priorities. Not everyone dares to express and defend their opinion. Not everyone can write a list of their own priorities, not to mention writing their requirements on the city wall. But what do we think about people who are solved to confront, find a way to make a statement loud?

A group of Kidult artists wakes up, fills the fire extinguisher with paint and begins the war with capitalism, corporations, luxury, unreasonable consumption. It seems to someone that a paint that floods the windows of boutiques is immoral than blood, which flows under the global brands that support wars, poverty, and lawlessness? Someone will call the Artivist vandal and killer of rare animals? Kidult is a visual black book of corporations, artists who fill the fires of consumption and non -wealth with colorful blood, artists who know the true face of death - your face, the face of all who support corporations and wars, who does not give a damn about the suffering of others. A fight with a dragon of capitalism is what we can observe for what we can support or lead on our own.

What do you, considering yourself fair, will be done when an eternal child enters your church, that if a barefoot preacher calls you to battle? What if they write on your mirror: "So the dragon looks. Kidult"? Will you refuse to defend your dubious cultural values in the name of equality?