Posters from the #Occupy movement – occuprint Art as a Weapon There is a particularly cynical groan that comes out of a critic’s voice when the term politics is paired with art or music, especially when the politics in question is current. When politics is buried beneath layers of conceptual academic skulduggery it is much easier to swallow. If it is historical it can also pass – otherwise terms like agit-prop, doctrinaire, and didactic are used with abandon. This attitude may be a side effect of the post-war boom years, or maybe it was the rise of theory-based art education, which turned its back on craft in favour of lofty intellectual pretensions. Regardless of where it comes from, it is clearly myopically misguided in a world where civil rights are eroding as fast as arable land. In hard times, a vanguard of artists always emerges whose work responds to the political climate – art that inspires movements and reveals injustice. For those in the Montreal area, Eric Drooker will be appearing at two upcoming events.
About | The Revolution Began Yesterday Who is Radix Media? Radix Media is a worker-owned and operated union print shop based in Brooklyn, New York, offering both offset and digital printing services, as well as graphic design. Our name comes from the Latin root of the word radical which means to get to the root. Worker-Owned Every worker at Radix Media is a co-owner and takes part in one or more aspects of management of the business. Union Shop Radix Media is unionized with both the Graphic Communications Conference / International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). Eco-Friendly We use vegetable-based inks and solvents, alcohol-free dampening systems on our offset presses, and our house paper is 100% post-consumer recycled. What We Print The list of projects we can print is vast, and includes zines, pamphlets, posters, postcards, business cards, letterhead, calendars, stickers, envelopes and much more. How did you get started? Have an idea for a project?
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