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VIDEO: ARTISTS PROTEST PRACTICE OF BUYING VOTES, PAINT THE TOWN RED
epress.am
02.17.2012
Local art-activist group Art Laboratory, as a response to the Feb. 12
mayoral elections in the city of Hrazdan, yesterday "painted the town
red', so to speak.
The "performance" (which could be deemed agitprop), called Against
Buying Votes, involved two members of the group spray painting
"5000 AMD" on the snow in various parts of the capital. Recall,
5,000 Armenian drams is the amount one woman said was promised to
Hrazdan citizens if they voted in the elections.
In the video below, passers-by are heard asking the artists what
political party they belong to, to which the latter reply, "None. This
is a protest against buying votes."
The artists also left their "5000 AMD" mark outside the Central
Electoral Commission's offices - which didn't seem to please the
police officer on duty who promptly began to wipe out the writing on
the snow with his feet.
epress.am
02.17.2012
Local art-activist group Art Laboratory, as a response to the Feb. 12
mayoral elections in the city of Hrazdan, yesterday "painted the town
red', so to speak.
The "performance" (which could be deemed agitprop), called Against
Buying Votes, involved two members of the group spray painting
"5000 AMD" on the snow in various parts of the capital. Recall,
5,000 Armenian drams is the amount one woman said was promised to
Hrazdan citizens if they voted in the elections.
In the video below, passers-by are heard asking the artists what
political party they belong to, to which the latter reply, "None. This
is a protest against buying votes."
The artists also left their "5000 AMD" mark outside the Central
Electoral Commission's offices - which didn't seem to please the
police officer on duty who promptly began to wipe out the writing on
the snow with his feet.