Another cool website collecting everyday culture is Pictures of Walls. This is a site full of messages written on walls. The idea is that this is the individuals attempt to comment and create the culture which appears around her.
The project has also resulted in a book called Pictures on Walls. There the importance of social commentary is stressed through the manifesto.
MANIFESTO
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. We, the public, fill concert halls and cinemas every day. We read novels by the millions and buy records by the billions. We, the people, affect the making, the taste and the quality of our culture.The Art we look at, however, is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Not more than 5000 people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist waving flags at a parade. A parade where the winner was decided without you.
We want to make Art that charts. We thought of calling it a revolutionary new way to sell Art but it’s not revolutionary. It’s just cheap.
The malls are coming out of the walls.
This one is entitled Pointless Vandalism. From the website Pictures of Walls.
Once again we see that by collecting the bits and peices of life, or the commentaries of people around us, we get thoughtful commentaries on our existence. Not only is this art (or whatever you want to call it) an effective and thought-provoking form of communication, but it is also additionally interesting since it is ephemeral. Here today, gone tomorrow.