“Credo Quia Absurdum Est.”

Political Street Art from Bucharest

Alexandru Rosu - www.brici.ro1

Street Art is Public Memory

• “After two weeks, everyone forgets about it”

• “If it’s not on the news, it never happened”

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Street Art is Public Memory

• battle for attention is huge;

• advertising campaigns usually last 13 weeks;

• street art lasts; it is not replaced by something else after 2 months

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Street Art isCivil Disobedience

• illegal

• anti-establishment

• protest

• incites to action

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Nicolae Ceausescu

• dictator;

• killed during the Romanian revolution;

• loads of people still miss him

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Ion Iliescu• former prominent

member of RCP, marginalized

• managed to get hold of power after 1989;

• managed to stay in office 3 terms, despite the constitution says only 2;

• called the miners to Bucharest, and held back development

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Corneliu Vadim Tudor• Ultra-nationalist,

anti-everything-non-Romanian-and-christian-orthodox;

• he was a “people’s poet” before 1989;

• he is generally considered insane;

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Adrian Nastase

• Ion Iliescu’s right hand; Prime Minister 2000 - ‘04;

• accused of major acts of corruption;

• under his government, general level of corruption was huge; presidential candidate

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Traian Basescu

• Sailor before 1989;

• not any political role;

• used to run a micro-scale smuggling operation (common)

• 2004 - seen as Romania’s only chance against corruption

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Iraq War. Global Politics.

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