On the Prince/Slayer controversy, I will only say this:
And as for the whole "transgressive authenticity of stencilling" controversy that Nik and Az have been exploring, I'd say only this: whoever's coopting what, just keep doing dangerous things, whatever form they might take -- coopted, peripheral, whatever. Entire genres or fields of practice are not what's at stake here. Trust me, I work in advertising. :) In fact, this could be the substance of what I have to say at my This Is Not Art panel. Thanks guys.
Keep writing!
Well, of course, and the point I was trying to make in far too little words with far too much incoherency is that you can’t make art that isn’t co-opted, or that doesn’t have the potentiality to be co-opted. Seeing stencils in random places is what makes my experience of the city, the City (in a Sue Golding sense): life spills out of the cracks in the footpath, gaps between concrete edifices, unpredictable, always exceeding the limits set by councils and town planners and private enterprise. But that life is always, also, circulating in an economy of social and economic capital. Which makes it no less important to keep spraying or writing or yelling.
Hola, camaradas. Is this Sue Golding of the Eight Technologies of Otherness?
but of course. check out an essay of hers called ‘sexual manners’ which was very possibly in an edition of the journal ‘parallax’ — i have a photocopy, but the journal itself is completely impossible to find anywhere.