#bogad

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L.M. Bogad - author artist activist

Several reasons to include Bogad in this little library to be. His book 'Electoral Guerilla Theatre' in particular seems interesting in the light of comedian and activist Russel Brand’s stance against voting, as he voiced in an interview with BBC’s Jeremy Paxman that went viral.

http://www.lmbogad.com/word/electoral-guerrilla-theatre-book.htm

Also check David van Reybrouck's 'Against elections':

http://www.debezigebij.nl/web/BoekForeign.htm?dbid=45486&typeofpage=1017248

[anttiy]

When Wells Fargo is foreclosed, this angry banker is forced to miss a day of rejecting small business loans and avoiding tax payments. A 1 minute 20 second spoof starring Larry Bogad and the whole whacky Occupy Wall Street crew!

[anttiy]

In this performance, L. M. Bogad poses as an authority (sometimes bureaucrat, corporate flack, and others).  The sign on the table says “WRITE YOUR DREAMS.” As people comply, he changes the signs to “WRITE YOUR HOPES” and/or “WRITE YOUR FEARS.” He then “processes” people’s writings in a series of absurd ways; censoring, annotating, footnoted, cutting, folding, crushing, twisting, burning, inhaling the smoke of the burned document to evaluate its smell…