[imc-st.louis] Fwd: (criticalmass) public art on view today @ Grand @ Chippewa

[Ben]

Pictures of the Kiosk, as it stood this afternoon, are online:
http://stlimc.org/newswire2008/jwt-protest-art-installation-south-grand-amp-phillips

Ben West wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Crowe Brooks <crowetbrooks at hotmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:33 PM
> Subject: (criticalmass) public art on view today til ?
> To:
> 
> 
> Hello friends and enemies, etc
> 
> I have just installed an information kiosk in front of the building
> which was formerly a McDonalds, near the intersection of Grand and
> Chippewa. The piece is four sided, and reads, respectively,
> 
> "THE COLLAPSE OF THE ST. LOUIS SCHOOL SYSTEM"
> 
> "A MICROCOSM OF THE FAILURE OF AMERICA"
> 
> third side is a map of St. Louis
> 
> and on the fourth side, in restroom graffiti style:
> 
> "CHAIN YOUR MAYOR TO A PIPE IN YOUR BASEMENT"
> 
> "BEAT HIM TIL HE SINGS"
> 
> "IT'S YOUR FAULT TOO"
> 
> As this is an uncommisioned gift to the city of St. Louis, I doubt it
> will be there for very long. If you wish to view it, please feel free
> to pass by. I would guess that someone will damage and/or remove it
> within the next day or two.
> 
> THANKS,
> Jason Wallace Triefenbach
> 
> 


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