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Hanging “Public Relations Advertisements” (Propaganda Displays)

November 4, 2018 by Museum Fatigue

Yesterday, for the first time ever I passed some workers installing one of the many displays of the “Core Values of Socialism” that have proliferated around the city over the past few years. The Core Values can be found in numerous formats (paper posters, painted on surfaces, printed on surfaces, carved in stone and displayed or projected visually) and in a wide variety of locations (at street intersections, at bus stops, on construction barriers, on or in busses, in taxis, […]

Categories: Advertising, Scripts • Tags: China, marketing, propaganda poster

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Mystery Object #22: Pop Cowboy UniSex Shampoo

January 19, 2015 by Museum Fatigue

After a long day on the road, we checked in to our hotel in Pailn—a small town near the border with Thailand—and the first thing I wanted to do was take a shower. So, imagine my surprise when I found two mystery objects on the back of the toilet seat. On the front of the single use packages was written—”Pop Cowboy UniSex” featuring a cowboy and a cowgirl(?) together with the symbols ♀ and ♂ in pink. The cowboy even […]

Categories: Advertising, Bodies, Mystery Objects • Tags: cowboy, product, sexuality

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Everyday Resistances: “Scrotumbank”

August 8, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

The scratchings of graffiti seem trivial and puerile on the surface but their tactical operations, often taken spontaneously on the fly with whatever writing implement might be on hand, offer an easily accessible lesson in everyday resistance. While ducking into a coffee shop across the street from the Royal Ontario Museum I caught a glimpse of this. The mind of a passerby thought of a creative way to add three letters and replace one in the name of the Scotiabank, the […]

Categories: Advertising, Play • Tags: everyday resistance, graffiti, Scotiabank, tactical operations

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Fashion is Most Glorious!

June 19, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

Walking on Chunxi Lu in Chengdu I passed a full sized advertisement which draws upon the imagery and language of the Cultural Revolution. Featuring a worker, peasant, soldier trio the text plays on slogans common during the CR. The CR slogans I’m familiar with, but I’m a bit unsure about the exact translation of the edited ones in the advertisement, so hopefully someone can help me with this. Below I have given my best shot at these phrasings and then […]

Categories: Advertising, China, Nostalgia, Politics • Tags: Chunxi Lu, Cultural Revolution, 红色年代, 革命, fashion, marketing, nostalgia, Revolution, slogans, 口号

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