What is it about?
Artists Carrie Moyer and photographer Sur Schaffner both created this two-person public art in 1991. They formed many satirical propaganda campaigns - “dissected mainstream media by inserting lesbian images into recognizably commercial contexts, revealing how lesbians are and are not depicted in American popular culture. While questioning the basic assumption that one cannot be “present” in a capitalist society unless one exists as a consumer group, DAM! performed the role of the advertiser, promising the lesbian viewer all the things she’d been denied by the mainstream: power, inclusion, and the public recognition of identity.”.
Their campaign had created a number above 5,000 of posters made over the course of one month.
Neighborhoods were targeted for both their posters and diversity of pedestrian traffic as well as their long histories as sites for graphic intervention and public discourse. As corporations and activists battled for the public space in New York City, DAM! turned to other modes of propaganda on lightboxes, catalogs, matchbooks, buttons and stickers.
Their campaign had created a number above 5,000 of posters made over the course of one month.
Neighborhoods were targeted for both their posters and diversity of pedestrian traffic as well as their long histories as sites for graphic intervention and public discourse. As corporations and activists battled for the public space in New York City, DAM! turned to other modes of propaganda on lightboxes, catalogs, matchbooks, buttons and stickers.