rebel:art

Zara Arshad experimentiert an der Schnittstelle Design, Technik und Aktivismus – sehr spannende Projekte, wie zum Beispiel moderne Protestformen: “Guerilla Codes“, eine Protest-Hotline, eine Art Guerilla Gardening Protest oder “Lightwriting”. “The project is called Lighten Up, and is a response to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) 2005; this is a law that prohibits protest within a 1km radius around the Houses of Parliament. After discovering that wearing red poppies or red noses within the area was illegal (as it supposedly constituted protest), and that a woman was threatened with arrest for eating a cake that had the word “peace” iced onto it, I became interested in the idea of protest; what it is now and what it can become. This is when I began to explore and design “alternative” methods of protest via the creative. Lighten Up uses long exposure on a digital camera and a light source to capture protest written in the air. The protest is not visible until it is captured on camera, therefore, is the ultimate night-time protest tool to challenge SOCPA (see the video here). The images can also be gathered together for a visual petition. The project forms part of a larger concept called BlackBook Activists and was initiated from an interest in technology and Street Art, especially influenced by Graffiti Research Lab.” Via: Mail