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Profits Are Destroying Our Homes
Homefront
Silkscreen, circa 1975 / New York, New York
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Community Control of the Land
Favianna Giannoni Rodriguez
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Self‐Help Graphics and Art
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
Silkscreen, 2002 / Los Angeles, California
In 2002, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Strategic Actions for a Just
Economy (SAJE) and Self‐Help Graphics (SHG) collaborated with seven artists and Los Angeles
housing activists to produce posters about gentrification. In particular, the posters were part of
efforts to protect the downtown Los Angeles community from the displacement caused by the
expansion of the Staples Center entertainment complex and the University of Southern
California. The resulting posters, including this one, were incorporated into several national and
international archives, as well as CSPG’s We Shall Not Be Moved exhibition. The project was
supported by a Rockefeller PACT grant (Partnerships Affirming Community Transformation).
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Big Fish Eat Little Fish
Robbie Conal
Offset, 2011 / Los Angeles, California
Left to Right: Lloyd Blankfein ‐ CEO of Goldman Sachs / Jamie Dimon ‐ CEO of JPMorgan Chase
& Co. / John Mack ‐ COB of Morgan Stanley / Brian Moynihan ‐ CEO of Bank of America
Robbie Conal describes how he developed this poster:
"BIG FISH EAT LITTLE FISH" began with the euphemistic phrase for defaulting mortgages,
"UNDER WATER." I was struck by its application to this particular form of property damage:
financial ruin. Not to mention its eerie proximity, in time, element and effect, to Hurricane
Katrina, and, in a larger (longer) context, global warming (i.e. the melting of glaciers and polar
ice caps, overflowing and warming ocean currents, blah, blah, blah...
But, as it played out, I was absolutely fascinated by the purity of disregard the titans of our
banking and capital investment institutions—ergo, "BIG FISH"— have for the millions of people
whose lives they'd ruined—not just put under water, but sunk to the bottom of the ocean—in
the process of reaping obscene profits from their predatory gobbling, Therefore, "BIG FISH EAT
LITTLE FISH."
Object Description
| Exhibition | Globalize THIS! International Graphics of Resistance |
| Title | Gallery Guide for "Globalize THIS! International Graphics of Resistance" |
| Year | 2012 |
| Decade(s) | 2010s |
| Curator(s) |
Bennett, Guy Steinberg, Kerri Wells, Carol |
| Description | List of 71 objects grouped by theme. |
| Notes | 20 pages |
| Gallery | Ben Maltz Gallery |
| ImageID | Globalize_THIS_Gallery_Guide |
| Collection | Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive |
Description
| Title | Page 11 |
| Full Text of PDF | 11 | P a g e 39 Profits Are Destroying Our Homes Homefront Silkscreen, circa 1975 / New York, New York 40 Community Control of the Land Favianna Giannoni Rodriguez Center for the Study of Political Graphics Self‐Help Graphics and Art Strategic Actions for a Just Economy Silkscreen, 2002 / Los Angeles, California In 2002, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE) and Self‐Help Graphics (SHG) collaborated with seven artists and Los Angeles housing activists to produce posters about gentrification. In particular, the posters were part of efforts to protect the downtown Los Angeles community from the displacement caused by the expansion of the Staples Center entertainment complex and the University of Southern California. The resulting posters, including this one, were incorporated into several national and international archives, as well as CSPG’s We Shall Not Be Moved exhibition. The project was supported by a Rockefeller PACT grant (Partnerships Affirming Community Transformation). 41 Big Fish Eat Little Fish Robbie Conal Offset, 2011 / Los Angeles, California Left to Right: Lloyd Blankfein ‐ CEO of Goldman Sachs / Jamie Dimon ‐ CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. / John Mack ‐ COB of Morgan Stanley / Brian Moynihan ‐ CEO of Bank of America Robbie Conal describes how he developed this poster: "BIG FISH EAT LITTLE FISH" began with the euphemistic phrase for defaulting mortgages, "UNDER WATER." I was struck by its application to this particular form of property damage: financial ruin. Not to mention its eerie proximity, in time, element and effect, to Hurricane Katrina, and, in a larger (longer) context, global warming (i.e. the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps, overflowing and warming ocean currents, blah, blah, blah... But, as it played out, I was absolutely fascinated by the purity of disregard the titans of our banking and capital investment institutions—ergo, "BIG FISH"— have for the millions of people whose lives they'd ruined—not just put under water, but sunk to the bottom of the ocean—in the process of reaping obscene profits from their predatory gobbling, Therefore, "BIG FISH EAT LITTLE FISH." |
