STREET ART ‘A WORLD VIEW’
July 22nd, 2008
The Starr Auditorium on Friday evening at Tate Modern was jam packed with an audience keen to hear The Wooster Collective talk about Street art, ‘A World View’.
Discussing street art from around the globe, The Wooster Collective used Banksy, Space Invader, Roadsworth and Mark Jenkins as excellent examples. Favorites had the crowd laughing included a piece by Josua Allen Harris and rather a strange collection of an urban problem facing us all, The Spinkle Brigade.
The talk revolved around the basics of street art; having a point of view, dedication, personal and intimate and surprise and delight. The talk concluded with two main points; Street Art is only successful when it has a dialogue, even if only with one person and its need by all to unify ‘ugly’ spaces before the ‘gentification’ of urban areas.
A fascinating talk which is to be followed Friday 25th July at 6.30-7.30 by a talk from Street Artist Pure Evil and art critic JJ Charlesworth on ‘Collecting Street Art’. Not to be missed!
Tags: Street Art, Tate Modern
