We had a brainstorming session to come up with a name for this project, I came up with ‘Samo Club’ - ‘Samo’ is the tag that Jean Michael Basquiat used to put with his graffiti, and for a while no one knew what it meant or who he was and started referring to this mystery street artist as Samo. I thought this applied quite well to our idea - continuing this theme of interrupting the urban landscape with art. I did some initial logo ideas:
We also did some research into pasting up posters; turns out its illegal to do it on any public property as it counts as littering. So that means we either would have to do it legally on public property, or on private property and ask permission. We emailed the council about the costs of putting up the posters in this big poster towers however a lot of people in the group disagreed with this as it takes away from the concept of the project being this guerrilla endeavour. While I agree with this logic, we can’t be sticking up posters illegally, so we needed to develop the concept/idea so that it could be done.
We brainstormed ideas on how we could display this work, this is what we came up with:
- asking shop/business owners permission to paste the work up on the walls of their buildings. We could put them up in cool places a lot of people go in Hyde park such as brudenell social club, Hyde park book club etc.
- We could put them up in the front of peoples windows, ask mates to put them up etc. and try and get a lot of people to do it.
- Put them up around uni and on bulletin boards, such as the University of Leeds bulletin boards.
- We could change them to mailers and just put them through loads of peoples letterboxes, cos after a bit of research we found that this is legal.
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