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Monday, September 11, 2006

Subversive energy shot


The British artist Banksy, planted a life-size model of a Guantanamo prisoner inside a Disneyland ride. It's what I mentally term Acts of Art - clever, subversive, in-your-face, unabashedly political. Everytime I read or hear of one, it gives me a jolt of delighted energy - and gets my mind bubbling with similar ideas for my own work.

One of my favourite ones is to get volunteers across the world to print out copies of my parody of Memoirs of a Geisha, and trawl big chain bookstores, slipping a copy into every volume of the novel. I've just been too lazy to get it off the ground.

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