Indecline
Indecline, stylized as INDECLINE, is an American anarchist art collective.
Indecline | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Movement | Contemporary art, street art, graffiti, activism |
| Website | Official website  |
Members have said that the collective was formed in 2001 and is decentralized, with "dozens" of members in affiliated groups in several US states and a few foreign countries,[1][2] and have characterized it as "[an] underground movement [of] activists, musicians, graffiti writers, [and] photographers".[3]
Projects
Bumfights
In 2002 Ryen McPherson, Daniel Tanner, and others operating as Indecline Films produced the first video in the Bumfights series, Bumfights: A Cause for Concern. They subsequently took down the Indecline Films website, and have said they sold the rights to the series to two investors.[4]
Dying for Work
In August 2012, the group installed a billboard on Interstate 15 in Las Vegas with Dying for Work in black lettering on a white background and a dummy hanging from it by a noose; a companion billboard, also with a hanged man, read "Hope you're happy Wall St."[1][5]
Largest piece of illegal graffiti
In April 2015, eight people spent six days creating the largest piece of illegal graffiti in the world: "This land was our land", painted on a disused military runway in the Mojave Desert (35.280664°N 117.397822°W).[3]
Rape mural
In October 2015, in response to Donald Trump's calling illegal immigrants "rapists", the group spray-painted a mural depicting Trump with the slogan "¡Rape Trump!" on an old border wall on US territory approximately a mile from the Tijuana airport.[2][6][7]
Hollywood Walk of Fame
In March 2016, members of the group glued names of African-Americans killed by police over names on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and also glued the Indecline logo to the stars.[7][8]
Donald Trump statues
On August 18, 2016, using industrial epoxy, the group glued life-sized nude statues of Trump to the sidewalk in five cities: Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Rail Beast
In September of 2017 Indecline broke into Union Pacific's Milford Utah yard and vandalized several engines parked on the south end of the yard at Lund Siding. One of them was painted like a tiger. Union Pacific Railroad Police has placed a $300.000 bounty on Indecline for vandalism and has moved some of the engines stored at Lund to Warm Springs Yard in Salt Lake City Utah. The engine in question UP #2519 was taken out of storage at Lund to nearby Milford and the graffiti was stripped off with primer before the engine was sent to Jenks Shops in North Little Rock, Arkansas for a full overhaul. The engine returned to service in 2019 and is still running but now has a flag decal on the long hood.[9]
See also
References
- Bort, Ryan (August 19, 2016). "We Talked to the Activists Responsible for Those Naked Donald Trump Statues". Newsweek.
- Suárez, Matthew (November 6, 2015). "¡Rape Trump! Border mural depicts presidential contender with ball gag". San Diego Reader.
- Taete, Jamie Lee Curtis (June 3, 2015). "These Guys Claim They've Made the Biggest Piece of Illegal Graffiti in the World". Vice.com.
- "Hell's Tour Guide Part 2". Polly Staffle. CCF Entertainment. July 2006. Archived from the original on January 8, 2007.
- "'Dying for work' billboard startles Las Vegas drivers". Fox news. August 8, 2012.
- Pardes, Arielle (October 30, 2015). "Someone Painted a 'Rape Trump' Mural on the Mexican Border". Vice.com.
- Rajghatta, Chidanand (August 19, 2016). "Anarchist artist tests limits with nude statues of Donald Trump". The Times of India.
- Holley, Peter (March 31, 2016). "Why the names of African Americans killed by police took over the Hollywood Walk of Fame". The Washington Post.
- October 17, Justin Franz |; 2017. "UP declines to comment on viral videos from September | Trains Magazine". TrainsMag.com. Retrieved April 29, 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)