so, when you make a poster trying to advertise to your fellow students various events, groups, movements; you have to get what you are advertising approved by various bureaucratic entities like the SFUO secretariat or the PSSA secretariat. And they have little regard for the design nor how they impose this significant sized stamp on anyones design principles. This is elemental and foundational to our consent to having little or no control over our surroundings; over our visual environment. Some may argue that by having these facilitators the environment is not dominated by the riches of some groups, and granted im not pro-advertising for just anything. But to demand activists and student groups to get approval for using what ultimately is their space to deliver projects they have willed... it is where the bureaucracy is born into the activists realm. Have your stamps; get it approved, do everything in the timely red tape fashion. never mind emergency campaigns, never mind the art of it, nevermind that there is a tenet of control in between our space and our application or usage of this space.
what if we wanted to just put up some graphics art that we'd designed? should I leave space for a stamp to be imposed? i get to put up 25 whole copies?
you want to understand grafitti? the desire to control visual space is born when there is distance created between developing and implementing ideas in our experiental hallways.
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