Is Regan Gentry being used purely as propaganda?
First published on artbash by Flake 12 Feb 2009
Regan Gentry is certainly an industrious individual making
his way. In my experience no one makes their way unless
they are of some use to another (higher up the food chain, )
to politically make a point. This is ever more prevalent
with public art. Public art are public signs, the Warehouse
is a huge sign a big deal, if we are passive to it’s domination
it is so by design. Can Money pay for anything other than
a picture of it’s own glorious reflection?
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Talk to someone in small business near a Warehouse and
you will hear the impact of this entity, financially but also
socially. These monoliths change the very fabric of social
identity the patterns and interactions we have with one
another are shifted to a scale where one is alienated ( ever
hung out long in an aisle, on purpose? ) and encouraged
to keep quite move along. We should ask what does Regan’s
Sculpture mean, and if we don’t like it we should make this
opinion seen. If this industrious artisan is the establishments
flavor of the month (though given his politics I can’t ever
see him going out of style) whose vision of social civil community life is Regan serving.
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To start with we have the lovely addition to the row of
cocks, The Chalice, the Westpac logo thingy and now
‘flour power’ perfectly drawing the only diagonal amongst
chch’s locked down gird. This diagonal strip, is mostly made
up of pedestrian areas, finally linking up with an educational
facility, ensuring a stead flow of walking traffic, which has
the annoying habit of congregating in some areas and not
buying anything, even worse distracting others from buying things.
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The very site of Regan’s “flour Power” was where an existing
sculpture with strikingly social values was removed to make
way. A fountain of some kind with I think tiles of children’s hands
or what not.. was decidedly the spot where relatively large
numbers of youths would hang out. In fact all along this stretch
of city was a mall with a few surviving grass areas popular with
the young mostly but some old, to hang out on, eat and watch
the shoppers shop.
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Regans new sculpture, the day after it was moved in i noticed
it was tagged, a few stickers went up… it’s tripod tyranny so
obvious it warranted little other protest.. since an energetic
and organized campaign from these youths failed to protect the
spot from being opened up to values that undermined their
rights to live in a way they saw fit. Now I believe the plan is to
open the mall to cars and the removal of these areas where
they felt safe and encouraged to socialized will be completed.
Why was this happening. The alley way of Cocks was here.
But what for?
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To understand this you have to do your home work and
I am as sure as an ad break that you will not. You could
spend half a day on 3 or 4 dvd’s and get the picture so
sharp you’d be left with moral out rage and a position not
unlike oppressed people all over the world. WHY WOULD YOU WANT THAT.
Let’s just keep the way things are to those that have to make
the decisions an hope that stuff doesn’t get in our way, not
that it’s likely to being white educated in massive dept,
I ‘ll do what ever it takes just to get by.
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NOw regan is to build a new sculpture for us in wellington.
A group of right wing capitalists (they can dispute the name
i don’t know what else to call them, they’re not my friends)
have empowered regan to make a sculpture on Karo drive.
NOw Karo drive is the name they came up with to call the suc-
cessfully completed road that bisects a community that for
30 years had actively opposed it’s creation. This is art people…
this is the true art of our times, not the little painting or trinkets
you see loitering in the fine shops around the country. Art is
Politics and it is no joke they are creating the world we live in
with their bad innuendos, puns jokes and material excesses…
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The road displaced a lot of historical look buildings which were
moved around to reform a service of shopping and even housing
only fro some reason they have stood empty for what years? as the
bad Karma over them grows and their micky mouse fun park aura
leaves a stench of arson in the air… Good natured Regan is to build
a facade resembling these empty buildings just up the road on Karo
drive for such and such reasons….
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In case you are not up to speed but need a clue, you will have to
get use to the ideas that the USA is an empire on collapse, the 70′s
was the implementation of a new world order from the USA to
service their debt, Rogernomics, Pol pot, are the same plan…
and the implementers of the empires world order all have invested
shares so you GOT to know they have not given up, HELL it’s a
NAtional GOVERMENT they’ve got the time !.
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Empires have slaves… and slave owners..
even nazi Germany had a ministry of Culture.
Is Regan Gentry being used purely as propaganda?
WE DO NOT NEED CULTURE
WE NEED A FEW ARTISTS
if you see Regan Gentry (or myself for that matter.. ) ask him what does he think he is doing?
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