The Committee (art)
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The Committee (also known as Committee) is a group which engages the public environment through the installation of signage, leafleting and acts of creative bureaucracy. Their various projects are usually carried out in East London. Central to their concerns appears to be uniting the domestic and the public spheres of life, as in their first known project, Project concerning a billboard, which saw them covering billboards in East London in cheap, easily available wallpaper. Another project, Project concerning mind games, used and subverted the style and language of municipal prohibitory signage.[1]
They are also active in reforming some of the basic notions on which our everyday assumptions are based, for example the Project concerning hurricanes, in which they carried out a leafleting campaign suggesting that all years after 2006 should be named as per the system used for hurricanes instead of numerically.
[edit] Committee Members
Little is known of (The) Committee’s membership, which evidently prefers anonymity. No individuals are named in any of their publications or notices, nor is there evidence of any positions or internal hierarchy, the group seeming to prefer to act as a collective body.
[edit] References
Mullen, Lisa. "London street art - Alex MacNaughton", Time Out, 2006-09-04. Retrieved on February 9, 2007.
