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Larissa Monteiro also created this ‘animated migration glitch’ called, Europe as a Gateway, as an intergrated response to her Roots and Routes  #REDboard2017. 

More of her animated glitched artworks can be found on her Vimeo site below.

Vimeo

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We have been told that Larissa Monteiro response to Where Do We Go From Here? in Trinity Market, has been gagged! 

The word SHIT deemed too offensive for some stall holders! 

SURPRISED??!

Meanwhile, there is a butcher in Trinity Market whose sign says "Put my meat in your mouth". !!!

" it’s tragic to know that we are almost at the corner of 2018 and still have to deal with suppression and prohibition of speech. being banned from the right of every individual to both seek/ receive information from all points of view without restriction is really serious. those reactions are exactly what i was talking about in the piece." - Larissa Monteiro

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Our final REDboard for this year's Hull UK City of Culture 2017 went up week commencing 05 December opposite Gypsyville Library.

Meanwhile...we're looking forward to to begin 2018 by bringing two #REDboard2017 indoors at Trinity Market  which has been commissioned by Hull2017′s  Where Do We Go From Here? , featuring four of our more politically charged alumni artists.

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Our first REDboard in the final season of ‘Tell The World’ comes in the surreal shape of Cornwall based artist Daniel Sparkes.

Daniel’s work inhabits the space between reality and illusion, between popular culture and scientific investigation, and creates a landscape where everything is spliced, butchered and dissected. His treatment of each subject, be it a desolate landscape, a stranger’s face or a panting animal, is linear; each must have a layer stripped away and another created, and each must have its own complex interior exposed. It is, as Daniel has said himself, “a fraudulent science”. To an extent he also plays with the idea of our disconnection with nature through, for example, portraying animal butchery as an idealistic cartoon scenario. In a world so preoccupied with superficial banality, Sparkes’ work, although initially appearing tongue-in-cheek, brings with it a more robust message of the conflict between the natural and mechanical worlds.

“Tell the world’ The Cat has Designs on me as an After-Volkswagen Pâté.” (i) A domestic still life, illuminating the POV at the moment the protagonist  has an existential/ecological realisation of the absurdity of her relationship with her pet feline. (ii) A visual anti-opinion piece, for the post-truth, collective-narcissism, eco-chamber age.

Daniel Sparkes website

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Our final Freedom series of REDboard2017 on Freehold Street (Spring Bank) is an artist collaboration by Dawn Woolley and Kansas City based Davin Watne.

Freedom and domination appear to be mutually exclusive concepts. The freedom to act without restraint can oppress others. As John Stuart Mill said, “ The freedom of companies, markets and governments to act as they please , can go too far and impinge upon the individual’s rights. The idea of freedom is evoked paradoxically by those in power to go against the best interest of others. Loss of freedom could be the price of inclusion and citizenship. Exclusion can also be restrictive.

On Saturday 23rd September there was a participatory ‘soapbox’ performance in which members of the public were invited to step up and make a speech on any subject.

Dawn Woolley website

Davin Watne website

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Our second #Freedom series of #REDboard2017 is by Dutch artist and researcher Walter van Rijn has a QR code download of his Being Human typeface incorporated into the artwork for street download.

“How Can You & I” is Walter’s response to that of Freedom and can be seen over in East Hull, on Holderness Rd until week of 11th September.

Freedom in the 21st Century? 

What progress have we made as a human species? 

What progress have we made since the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights in 1948? 

What we know is that we need to keep fighting for the Human Rights. They might be officially declared at the United Nations, but many institutions and governments see them as an obstacle. For this reason, in response to our Freedom season, Wlater has created a font (Being-Human) that includes the main terms of the declaration within the letters of the font. By using this font we can write any text and have a mini version of the declaration included and dispersed. The font has an open licence so everyone can download it and use it. 

Download Being Human typeface here

Walter van Rijn website

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The first in our #Freedom series of #REDboard2017 is Sheffield based artist Chris Graham who is as likely to reference Mickey Mouse or Kate Moss as he is Zygmunt Bauman as his wor is a complex, nuanced and dazzling blend of radical dissent, catharsis and critique of institutional power. It’s also underpinned by a conviction that art should not only reflect but meanfully chime with everyday life, not be marooned in some bloodless cultural ghetto.

“ I think art should try to reconnect us to life, not hide life from us in some art wankery, intellectual, pseudo scientific, international art language, codified, elitist fucking bollocks. In blue to match your fucking sofa!”-

Chris Graham

Chris’s Freedom Redboard went up on 20/07 at Clarence Street HU9 1DU   ( going east over the newly painted Venn Diagram Bridge ie. Drypool Bridge)

Chris Graham website 

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Sound piece intergal to Mathias Tornvig Christensen's REDboard design