iProtest Arts Charity presents: Team Robbo and Yu ‘s “Kitten Defence League” by Giri Ramgopal

iProtest Arts Charity presents: Team Robbo and Yu

sponsoring “Kitten Defence League” at Flying Egg Space,

Mowlem Street London‏, off Vyner Street. E2

Press Release by  (TRAP.ltd) on behalf of iProtest Arts Charity:

‘Kitten Defence League’ is the brainchild of Cecilia W Yu founder of iProtest’.  Many clusters of colloborative  art co-ops starting with those run by UK artists like Testspace in Leeds, will be  inducted under the iprotest mentorship scheme in 2012.

The first KDL ‘mission’ will be announced at a series of high-profile August events in London & Liverpool  by Team Robbo (TR) and Yu. TR and Yu will share their guerilla art tactics with aspiring street artists and commercial designers; bringing together an East-west fusion “old school rules”.

Various self-taught UK young artists will be posing in naff graffiti paper bags over their heads outside Flying Egg Space off Vyner to drive home an ironic parody. While 10+ small grassroot galleries at Vyner Street will be  displaying their eccelectic collection of street art as part of Whitechapel Galleries London-wide exhibition Thursday 7th – 12th June.

The irony is the iphone ‘street tag’ app used to make the images originally promoted last year’s ‘Graffiti War’. Documenting what has now become an overpublicised feud betwen Team Robbo and Banksy!  Team Robbo and Yu’s ironic paperbag parody is a playful poke at TR’s new found celebrity status. Team Robbo was Lauded on channel 4′s ‘Street Summer’ series as the most authentic graffiti crew to break into the Fine Art world but the iphone application remain as Yu, a professional visual artist said to TR at their recent weekend brainstorming, “Never mind their gimmick, gentlemen, can we please teach some “old school” techniques?”

IProtest, the global Art charity has always championed human rights violations cases like the blinded illegally detained activist Chen Guangcheng, Free Nobel peace laureate LIu Xiaobo and most up-to-date the suspicious death of Li Wang yang.

IProtest-Pepa partnership in the Congo using Dance as a source of empowerment for women who were victims of rape as a weapon of war. This was established after the founder of Iprotest and PEPA attended a global teleconference with the Nobel Women Initiative and was able to bounce ideas about the role of culture to “End Rape in Conflict” with Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams. “My Body, My dance” fuses London Ska music with some 400 different traditional community Congolese dances.

In light of the possible humour association of the Kitten Defence League with other “defence leagues” whose Prank-style suited the maverick tastes of Team Robbo, Cecilia suggested to TR, “This is EXTRA FANTASTIC and IRONIC in 2012, together we use iProtest to reclaim a music by black power in the 60s, later popularised by white RACISTS in the skin-head movements in the 70s, back to Africa to empower the very people who had been victims of hatred and violence! That is the Transformative Universal Power of the Arts to get beyond barriers and negativity in a peaceful, non-violent & creative way! lol. And no  iphone applications needed in Africa, its just people doing it!”

So as ever the light-heartedness of ‘Kitten Defence League’ belies the serious social commentary. Cecilia explained:

‘Iprotest knows what is going on and what people are using to try to learn art and we are saying, YOU NEED REAL ART Mentors! We can help! When people only take their leads from the mainstream media’s perception of Graffiti….it can “ruin their technical styles” which is an art form…so why don’t the marketers let the Real Artists get on with the art of mentoring? Help us by giving us Creative free speech. Many uk co-operatives of self-taught young artists spent alot of time trying to give real space to young hopefuls. They need the challenge of working with professionals…not another Channel 4 iphone application! ie. it takes more than a computer game/application to be an artist! Team Robbo and Yu wanted to demystify art. Specifically Team Robbo would like young hopefuls for the mentorship to email them their Funny Art ideas as part of their selection criteria. Be Wild, Be innovative!”

Cecilia supported UKshima’s postcards, painted by international atists with words of support, from UK and US towns to form an Art Instalation at Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, sponsored by British Chambers of commerce & Japanese Embassy. Owing to it’s success in keeping the suffering of local Japanese residents alive in the minds of the west. A year after the region was struck by Tsunami and Earthquake.

Team Robbo wants British Graffiti art to spread Globally, showing their support for London’s grass-root counter-culture in all ways.

So KDL postcards will be onsale for a pound to fundraise and promote a similar installation in Liverpool. This charity Art and Music festival will conclude with a loving tribute to Bafta Lifetime award winner Eva Monley. Who died last November aged 88. The haulocaust survivor had an inate understanding of the suspicion and fears of those caught in war-zones to support international film shoots, often recruiting them as extras.

This no doubt added to the humanitarian element of the films she worked on. Residents can vote via the postcards for one of her films to be screened. From Lawrence of Arabia including rare interview footage, Highlander and Mississippi Masala at Liverpool’s iconic St Luke’s bombed out church.

It is therefore only fitting that this all day-er to feature multicultural street food along with Liverpuddlian fried favourites. Residents will be encouraged to register their ‘iProtest Against Violent Idiot-isms’. Asking the hard question on the postcards ‘Why Liverpool is often considered deprived by non-scousers?’.

6 Comments on “iProtest Arts Charity presents: Team Robbo and Yu ‘s “Kitten Defence League” by Giri Ramgopal”

1. zagabe

   June 8, 2012

   

   Great, Congratulations to all the Directors of Iprotest to make this happen, I believe we can change the World,

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2. Giri Ramgopal

   June 9, 2012

   

   Big thank you to all the iProtest volunteers that made this very spontaneous event happen. Proof that when we need into the press we can make art in a day!

   Let’s hope our leaguers can expose far more serious threats to international free speech.

   To expose to the West the hateful treatment by the CCP of pro-democracy Tiananmen square student protester Li Wang Yang. Imprisoned for 22 years. Taking his youth and his life days after the peaceful 180,000+ candlelit memorial of the massacre.

   We mustn’t rest until his family get the answers Amnesty International and Hong Kong’s official medical inquest is demanding. Since it’s clear there is zero chance, in the professional medical opinion, that he took his own life. RIP bright soul!

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   • ceciliawyu

     June 9, 2012

     

     Thank you for all your hard work. Believe me when I say that it is not out of some sort of snobbery or aloofness that I have been “missing” in your stellar effort for Kitten Defence League. Translation between international human rights lobbyists and chinese human rights lobbyists take a lot of time and energy…partly because sometimes the contents of the human atrocities are so shocking! Thank you everyone and please say a big thank you to the talented photographer Gary J Ward for me + everyone in your team of course whom I hope to meet one day. But right now I am as “swamped” as the Mississippi!

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     • Giri Ramgopal

       June 9, 2012

       

       The memory of Li Yang Wang and the surviving Tiananmen Square Massacre pro-democracy student protesters still imprisoned. That is what we are working for.

       My kitten leaguers can’t wait to meet you. Keep translating the CCP hate against the June 4th 180,000+ peaceful candle-light vigil into hope
3. ceciliawyu

   June 11, 2012

   

   Thanks for liking this post. Wirral Festival of First… I think you are an art based festival? http://www.festivaloffirsts.co.uk/
   Please leave a contact person & details next time you visit ? It is good to connect. cheers.

   Reply

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