Guerrilla communication
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The terms guerrilla communication and communication guerrilla refer to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication.
Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning these into the starting point for political interventions by playing with representations and identities, with alienation and over-identification.
One form of guerrilla communication is the creation of ritual via participative public spectacle to disrupt or protest some public event or to shift the perspectives of passers-by. Such spectacles often take the form of street and guerrilla theater, such as the theater of Augusto Boal. Another way to create such spectacle is via tactical frivolity.
Pie-throwing as performance art is a classic form of guerrilla communication. The event is a moment turned inside-out; art is made from the reactions of the bystanders, turning spectacle to ritual. Other forms of guerrilla communication include adbusting, graffiti, hacktivism (notably cyber squatting), and reclaiming.
See also
External links
- The Handbook of Communication Guerrilla (http://www.contrast.org/KG/engindex.htm)
- Blogchronik der Kommunikationsguerilla - multilingual Weblog - but german dominant (http://kommunikationsguerilla.twoday.net)
- Media Activism (http://www.media-hijack.com)
Texts about Guerilla Communication
- autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-gruppe: Communication Guerilla - Transversality in Everyday Life? (http://www.republicart.net/disc/artsabotage/afrikagruppe01_en.htm)
- autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-gruppe, Luther Blissettt and Sonja Brünzels: Communication guerrilla - a message out of the deeper german backwood (http://www.contrast.org/KG/nett20.htm)