Final Thoughts
Tired Media Tent at OccupyLA by MikeyWally
Returning to Goya and the history of visual protest, it remains unclear whether we will see anything akin to a single work or single image that will take center stage. Further, it’s unclear whether a single institutional voice (as with ACT UP in the 1980s), or logo, or branding mechanism will surface. It’s also not clear that the movement needs such a singular vision. Perhaps the diffusiveness of the imagery is resonant with the movement itself. The movement and its accompanying visuals, in their varied and often personal forms, are a catalyst. They are putting the issues, but more importantly the emotions and the anger, into discourse.
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