Western Pole

Collectively Published Bootlegs for Western Pole

When our friends Public Collectors started to notice these excellent, anonymous posters around on their garage and in their neighborhood—which so perfectly mimic the ubiquitous contractor and fix-it flyers left on garages and in alleys across our beautiful and diverse city—we of course took notice. Marc is a friend and his practice is a longtime favorite, for its concerns for the spectra and spaces of public/private, global/local, sincere/silly.

The projects are always deeply grounded in specificity and locality, allowing the multiversal themes and ideas to emerge through the collecting, culling, collating and, dare we say, curating. Cultural politics emerge as the front and are often at the front, functioning as a fulcrum for the vernacular and the overlooked, giving sweet sense of the world’s vastness for the attentive. A patient, curious and capacious approach brings into focus the id of the archive(s).

Abutting and cribbing a practice grounded in rangy authorship, these bootlegs of bootlegs quintuple their impact through a literal reposting in another gentrifying, working class, immigrant neighborhood: the thing is and isn’t the thing.