Death Penalty: 'The death penalty (also known as capital punishment) is the premeditated, judicially sanctioned killing of an individual by a state.'
According to Amnesty International, the death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights:
Political Tool - You are more likely to be sentenced to death if state authorities see you as a threat which is why the death penalty can be perceived as a political tool. Opposition = Threat = Death
It discriminates - You are more likely to be sentenced to death if you are a member of a minority group within a state that executes. The death penalty disproportionately affects members of racial, ethnic and religious minorities, as well as those living in poverty.
It's irreversible - Mistakes happen
It doesn't deter crime - A 2012 report by independent researchers at America’s National Research Council of the Academies found that US states using the death penalty have a similar murder rate to states that don’t use it: the threat of capital punishment did not appear to prevent homicides.
'If the death penalty is not a deterrent, and it is not, and if the death penalty does not make us safer, and it does not, then it is only high-cost revenge.' - Florida judge Charles M Harris
Greenpeace
Ocean Pollution - Plastic
The oceans are at their choking point, for every mile of beach surveyed there are 159 plastic bottles found washed up.
A big part of the problem is plastic bottles. They take more than 450 years to degrade
Plastic doesn’t belong in the ocean, but there is 12.7 million tons of the stuff entering them every year, that’s a rubbish truck every. single. minute.
An artwork designed by Zaher Omareen and Ibrahim Fakhri. Their work documents some of the individuals lost in the Syrian revolution. The piece was created using stencils and spray painted directly onto the gallery wall. Similar stencils have been shared online to encourage people to repeat them on walls around the world as they have done and continue to in Syria. The text in the artwork reads ‘Freedom':
Dismaland was a temporary art project organised by street artist Banksy, constructed in the seaside resort town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England in 2015.
Cullen initially thought he to go into advertising as a career, studying it at Leeds College of Art where he learned the language and techniques of the medium but became steadily horrified at the ethical implications involved.
Cullen abandoned advertising to study Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art. He now uses the language of advertising to make work about the empty promises of consumerism and the lies of military recruiters.
The campaign challenges the British Army's policy of recruiting 16 year olds into the most dangerous army jobs.
Cullen has also related his work to the Navy campaign as well:
Cullen's work is satirical as it mocking and sarcastic tone of voice throughout his campaigns.
- Torture
- Mass Surveillance
- Women's Rights
Greenpeace
Ocean Pollution - Plastic
A big part of the problem is plastic bottles. They take more than 450 years to degrade
Plastic doesn’t belong in the ocean, but there is 12.7 million tons of the stuff entering them every year, that’s a rubbish truck every. single. minute.
V&A Disobedient Objects
Syrian Graffiti
An artwork designed by Zaher Omareen and Ibrahim Fakhri. Their work documents some of the individuals lost in the Syrian revolution. The piece was created using stencils and spray painted directly onto the gallery wall. Similar stencils have been shared online to encourage people to repeat them on walls around the world as they have done and continue to in Syria. The text in the artwork reads ‘Freedom':
The artwork documents the martyrs lost in the revolution.
The news stated the number of deaths however nobody knows their names or faces so they made it more human by using the faces of the martyrs as stencils.
Once the revolution started they began to shoot people so they started to spray on walls as a way to express themselves.
Graffiti in Syria - If you get caught. you're shot on the spot
Can't speak out and say what you want to say
Tools to conceal a stencil:
- Made from newspaper, concealed inside a newspaper
- Xray sheets - Easy to cut and fold
- Paper bags
Don't always use spray paint, other materials such as shoe polish are used.
'It's a newspaper.. It's paperback.'
People demanding their rights
Tortured to death, shot on the spot.
Children amongst them
Need to be acknowledged - Not numbers, humans.
Could potentially create a broadsheet newspaper with ready made stencils that people can use to raise awareness of the controversy in Syria and providing the public with a tool to encourage freedom of speech.
Banksy's Dismaland
Darren Cullen - A UK based artist and political cartoonist.
Cullen initially thought he to go into advertising as a career, studying it at Leeds College of Art where he learned the language and techniques of the medium but became steadily horrified at the ethical implications involved.
“Manipulating the desires and aspirations of the public, and especially children, using an arsenal of sophisticated and emotionally damaging psychological techniques is an appalling way to make a living and an even worse way to sustain an economy.”
Cullen abandoned advertising to study Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art. He now uses the language of advertising to make work about the empty promises of consumerism and the lies of military recruiters.
As part of his practice, he created the website, Spelling Mistakes Matter to showcase his work and highlight issues:
Join the Army - Recruitment Comic
2013
Award winning video:
Campaign as a response to the Army recruitment campaign:
https://vimeo.com/131462825
Cullen has used the iconic children's toy Action Man and takes the tone of voice from the adverts in order to juxtapose the negative facts with advertising.
Cullen has also related his work to the Navy campaign as well:
Satire definition: 'The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticise people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.'
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