“I’m here for the FUN!!!” Das Dave the Chimp Interview 9. Februar 2007
Veröffentlicht von TAuSb in : InPuT, KÜNSTLER, Dave , trackback
Dave the Chimp kommt aus London. Er hat einen sehr einfachen coolen Character Style mit viel Humor. Früher hat er oft Dinge bemalt wie Holzplatten und Sperrmüll und hat sie dann auf die Strasse gestellt, wo sich Passanten einfach an seinen Werken bedienen konnten. Dave arbeitet als Illustrator und LIEBT Roboter
give a short description of yourself and your style.
I am short and hairy, with very long arms. my style is bohemian homeless chic, and I mostly wear clothes that I find in the street and wrap my feet in free plastic grocery bags. If you want to get ahead wear a hat. or stab the people that are ahead of you.
when and how did you discover streetart?
I discovered this so called “street art” in the streets of my homeland, Zargorkia, in the early 18th century. I was a young lad of six and, while feasting heartily on livers, I noticed blood spray out of a ventricle, through the kitchen window, and onto the wall of the neighbours house. I went outside and traced patterns in the blood. I became fascinated by this and would draw my bloody patterns wherever I went. One day I noticed a local clothing manufacturer had used one of my patterns as the basis of a new cloth pattern. From this I went on to design sneakers, wooden toys, and eventually to exhibit in the Zargorkia Museum of Contemporary Art. It was only then, when my art had been commercialised and become a fully-fledged product of consumer society, that I realised I was now a true “street artist”.
why did you become active in streetart?
20, 000 volts of electricity created the vital electrical activity my body required to make it live again. it was all down-hill from there.
what kind of responses (reactions oder feedback) have you received on your artwork?
A 50 year old woman on the way to her cleaning job at 5am stopped and said to me:
“If I could paint like that I’d be a millionaire”.
So how come, if I CAN paint like that, I’m broke?
what provoked you to chose an illegal art form?
It’s easier to get away with that selling crack to school children
what do you think about the present streetart hype?
Street art is dead. It’s only street art if it’s on the street. 90% of so-called “street” artists stopped putting work in the street the moment they got offered their first gallery show or advertising commission. So let’s hear it for hype, and the shallow fools who chase fashion, and let’s hear it for big business, the death of creativity.
Now where’s my fucking cheque?
How do you see your future as a streetart artist?
I am not a “streetart” artist. It’s up for debate whether I am even an “artist”. I paint in the streets, I make gallery shows, I’m a director of pop videos and tv commercials, I make sculpture, I make performance art, I draw cartoons for newspapers and illustrations for magazines, I make animation and design skateboards. I’m here to steal your girlfriend and rape your record collection. I’m here for the FUN!!!
Fuck street art, let’s party!!!
Your message to the people (out there):
Don’t go “out there” people. Stay inside where it’s nice and warm and safe.
And please, for the love of God, never, ever, aspire to being a “street artist” - they’re all a bunch of art fags.
Long live the Brotherhood of Zargorkia!
Dave the Chimp, East London, January 2007
Kommentare»
bisher keine kommentare