Credo Quia Absurdum Est
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“Credo Quia Absurdum Est.”
Political Street Art from Bucharest
Alexandru Rosu - www.brici.ro1
Street Art is Public Memory
• “After two weeks, everyone forgets about it”
• “If it’s not on the news, it never happened”
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Street Art is Public Memory
• battle for attention is huge;
• advertising campaigns usually last 13 weeks;
• street art lasts; it is not replaced by something else after 2 months
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Street Art isCivil Disobedience
• illegal
• anti-establishment
• protest
• incites to action
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Nicolae Ceausescu
• dictator;
• killed during the Romanian revolution;
• loads of people still miss him
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Ion Iliescu• former prominent
member of RCP, marginalized
• managed to get hold of power after 1989;
• managed to stay in office 3 terms, despite the constitution says only 2;
• called the miners to Bucharest, and held back development
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Corneliu Vadim Tudor• Ultra-nationalist,
anti-everything-non-Romanian-and-christian-orthodox;
• he was a “people’s poet” before 1989;
• he is generally considered insane;
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Adrian Nastase
• Ion Iliescu’s right hand; Prime Minister 2000 - ‘04;
• accused of major acts of corruption;
• under his government, general level of corruption was huge; presidential candidate
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Traian Basescu
• Sailor before 1989;
• not any political role;
• used to run a micro-scale smuggling operation (common)
• 2004 - seen as Romania’s only chance against corruption
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Iraq War. Global Politics.
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