ANNA! GRAFFITI · NYC
Brandalism
ANNA! tags, rollers and bus ad takeovers across New York. Rooftops, trucks, tunnels, the Bowery wall. The city rents its walls by the week. These are the weeks she took back.
STATEMENT
Graffiti is not vandalism. It is anarchistic advertisement.
Most advertising is consumed without consent. You never agreed to the bus shelter. You never agreed to the billboard. It is put in front of your eyes and you take it in. This work is the response.
An ad is priced by the square foot. The price is the people who pass and look. The same people pass my name. The same people look. So if their square footage is worth that much, how much am I worth?
This is about real views, not Instagram views. A post is gone in a scroll. A wall stays. It is about making space in someone’s memory, not their phone.
The long version is in the manifesto.
Latest
New tags and bus ads from the last few months.
Bus ads
Bus shelter ads, painted over. Collage, paint, and ANNA TELEVISION.
Rooftops and rollers
Roller letters on Lower East Side rooftops, sized to be read from the street.
Trucks and street spots
Box trucks, shutters and street spots. A truck carries the tag to blocks it was never painted on.
Tunnels and infrastructure
Tunnels, bridges and the parts of the city built to be ignored.
Walls, windows, and fire escapes
Downtown walls, storefront windows and fire escapes.
PUBLIC ART · NEW YORK · 2023
Bowery/Houston Wall
The best-known public-art wall in downtown Manhattan. Scale, handstyle and direct intervention, in conversation with graffiti history and the changing street.
