The citizen artist mobile armband

On Saturday 26th a team of Citizen Artists (Daphne Plessner, Sophia Selby, Rahel Zoller, Nancy Fleischauer, Kristine Bumeister, Parastow Miri and friends Richard, Jonathon Wright and Calum) launched a moving exhibition called the ’Citizen Artist Mobile Armband Exhibiton’ during the TUC rally in collaboration with the Save Our Placards! collective. Daphne Plessner was the lead artist in the exhibition.

The exhibition consisted of 120 unique armbands carrying protest slogans generated by an online ’sloganizer’. The purpose was to circumvent a gallery or museum environment and instead embed an art exhibition within a live political event, transmuting the exhibition as an object in itself, or an arena for the display of objects, into a mobile and transient event. The political rally itself was seen of as an expanded exhibition space ripe for intervention.

Save Our Placards! Project in a nutshell… At the TUC anti-cuts demonstration on 26 March, the Save Our Placards! team will be asking people on the demonstration to donate items to the Museum of London, either on the day or at a separate event at the Museum on 2 April. In essence, those on the march will decide how it is remembered providing material to the demonstrators to create a mobile exhibition in the march. Placards will use images from past London protests, e.g. Suffragettes, Poll Tax demonstrations, and the main man himself PROTEIN MAN.

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