Howl! arts collective presents a beautiful video interview with celebrated revolutionary artist Eric Drooker, filmed/produced in Montreal by Trust & Co. Video was recorded in Montreal during a visit by Drooker to the city for a special edition of Artists Against Apartheid, a concert series uniting artists for the Palestinian struggle for liberation, co-presented by Howl! collective.
In this beautiful video Drooker speaks openly on the importance of street art in society and encourages progressive artists to utalize the public domain, the streets, city walls, as a canvas to express ideas.
Eric Drooker is a painter and graphic novelist, born and raised on Manhattan Island. He’s the award-winning author of Flood! A Novel in Pictures, and Blood Song. He designed the animation for the recent film, Howl, a movie based on the epic poem by Allen Ginsberg, who collaborated with Drooker on the book Illuminated Poems. His paintings appear on covers of The New Yorker, and hang in numerous collections.
Drooker’s work is also central to the imagery of social movements globally, from picket signs in the current Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City, to campaigns for food sovereignty, to iconic posters illustrating the historic protests against the WTO over the past decade. Drooker regularly draws from the figure, and is working on a series of nude paintings for an upcoming book.
video credits: director: Stéphane Grasso, produced by Isabella Salas, camera: Philip Tam and Hong An Nguyen, editor: Stéphane Grasso CC Trust & Co. 2012
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