The Cut Up Collective and their Cut Up Machine
"The Moustache Foundation is proud to present for its inaugural exhibition, CutUp Machine, a series of new works by the collective CutUp.
CutUp are an autonomous group linked by a shared desire to reorder the urban landscape through intervention and play. Incorporating film, collage and installation, CutUp's practice focuses largely on the creative potential of the street as a site for interventionist art and disruption.
Interested in the spaces of misinformation and miscommunication inherent in the everyday, CutUp aim to introduce disorder into daily existence by interrupting and re-appropriating established visual forms. Occurring both inside and outside the gallery, CutUp's billboard and bus stop works are created by slicing up an advert and reassembling the pieces into a newly ordered image."
(Jaguar Shoes Collective, 4 November 2005)
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
CutUp: Repurposing Billboard Advertising Space
kemistrygallery.co.uk
Cutup have rethought traditional methods of making a statement through the subversion of the visual landscape of the city. CutUp's billboard images are created by slicing up adverts and collaging the pieces into a newly ordered image. They challenge the invasion of advertising into every aspect of life and show the effects of the "spectacular society".
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The Constellations ProjectSHARE
Bangkok billboards: effaced through slicing and reordering
It's quite common to see billboards in Bangkok like this one - which appear to have been left in an interim state - after the termination of one advertising promotion and before the commission of another.
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The Constellations ProjectSHARE
