A week of absurdist art attacks on British politics by a man who'd rather legalise pottery than debate policy.
Shrigley puts his personal spin on news stories and big events every day for a week by creating seven pieces of thought-provoking and entertaining artwork which offer an alternative, very personal interpretation on a topical news story. In the week-long public art project he expresses his idiosyncratic, wry humour in a variety of surprising media. Among his creations, there's been a cartoon on a building banner for Manchester about bullying, saying: "The bully has a brain the size of a pea"; a horde of people with sandwich boards about Tony Blair's current political issues which gathered outside the Guildhall in London, where the Prime Minister was making a speech; a giant mobile billboard parked at the Tory hustings in Leicester with the rallying cry "Legalise pottery"; and a giant wearing the slogan "Binge drinking is our heritage" visited bars in Nottingham.
Practical Effects
Giant sandwich boards and mobile billboards as legitimate artistic media.
Direction
Peter Hall captures Shrigley's chaos without killing the joke.
Writing
Slogans so stupid they accidentally become genius satire.
Director
Peter Hall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shrigley belongs to a lineage of British absurdist satirists from Monty Python to Chris Morris, where the joke is that someone bothered to make it at all.
This 2005 project eerily prefigured the era of viral protest stunts and 'dumb' Twitter accounts that accidentally became influential political commentary.
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