• September 14, 2003
  • Posted by Marc

Email of the Day: Madrid Expo

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“Hi, My
name is Martin and I am part of a growing de-centralized organization of street-
art activists in Madrid.

On sep. 11th, we organized an exposition
using the advertising spaces of public phones on the streets.The exposition was
to launch the project TeGustaLoQueVes (DoYouLikeWhatYouSee) and the idea is to
promote the occupation of ad-spaces in bus stops, public phones, and all places
which are supposed to have a social function, and recover them for popular urban
expression.

About 40 street artists took the original ads and
distorted them with whatever non-comercial motive and technique they wanted.
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On the 10th at night, we changed the ads on public phones on the whole
street of Gran Via, downtown Madrid, and on the 11th. we walked throguh the
expo, while already people from Telefonica were begining to take them away.
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We made a webpage with the photographs (unfortunately it’s only in
spanish) But I think it might interest you:

href="http://www.stopwars.org/tegustaloqueves">http://www.stopwars.org/tegustalo
queves



Also, a few months ago we made an urban act party
against the war, and we have quite a nice video about it if it interests you: href="http://www.stopwars.org/urbanact ">http://www.stopwars.org/urbanact
(click on “video” and download the
quicktime mov version)

/>Greetings, and congratulations on your site, which is a constant source of
inspiration for us.

Martin