The Influencers Festival in Barcelona, Spain 2010 – Featuring French Artist ZEVS

The Influencers Festival in Barcelona, Spain 2010 – Featuring French Artist ZEVS

The Influencers Festival in Barcelona last year looked wicked, with Italian artist Blu doing a giant money shark, and this year is going to be another good one!

French artist Zevs will be presenting his work at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona next Saturday, February 5th. He is known for his performance art and the instantly recognisable liquiding logos.

ZEVS Liquidated Logo - Coca Cola

He was in the media recently after being arrested in Hong Kong after painting the Chanel store logo to look like it was melting. He’ll be in Barcelona for a few days, hopefully painting up the city a little.

It’s not all about ZEVS though, they have loads of other artists and a pretty great set of things going on. People like The Yes Men, James Acord, Donkijote, Black Label Bike Club, Joan Leandre / Retroyou, Critical Art Ensemble and IOCOSE.

Here is the blurb from the flyer, check out The Influencers site for the latest info on what is going on…

Since 2004, The Influencers has been gathering a limited but carefully selected number of diverse projects. This 6th installment makes no exception: celebrity pranksters (with a cause), tactical media artists, computer games modders, hitech donkeys, extreme bicycling gangs, atomic sculptors, ads’ kidnappers, and media transformers will come together for three long evenings to present, discuss, and perform their work.

Whether they are art works or life long projects, or just weird ideas one came up with, these practices are fed by a visionary taste for weirdness and desire for social change.

Unlike other festivals, The Influencers has no theme, but if you are looking for threads to string stories together, this time you will encounter at least a couple. First, examples of mind ecologies, life after dumb consumerism, DIY survival strategies for after the brands feast is over.

Second, risky and dangerous narratives. Those risks that you take on when you force physical, aesthetical, legal, and political boundaries of our society, and challenge collective imagination to desire the unthinkable. We want to show that taking risks is possible, never easy, frequently fun, and always very instructive.

The Festival is on from 4-6th February in Barcelona, Spain, go!

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