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San Francisco State University.
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Packard Jennings
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In his early career he modified billboards, a common practice of culture jammers. He is affiliated with Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles, and Analix Forever in Geneva. He is currently working on a new series of emoticons based on the movie "Flashdance."
Consumer Culture - Jennings has created a fake corporation, the Centennial Society, as well as entire bodies of work that served as criticisms of Wal-Mart, the tobacco industry and the commodification of dissent.
Jennings has made major contributions to the practice of "" (a term coined around 2004 to describe the covert placing of art or propaganda into stores) The earliest in 1998 with his Walmart Project, which features 7 art products placed in Walmart Stores which are humorously critical of aspects of their business practice.
Other Shopdropped works include: A Day at The Mall (pamphlet), Welcome to Geneva (pamphlet), the Anarchist Action figure, Walgreens Local Business Coupon, and the Pocket Survival Guide. In 2011, Jennings launched The site states: "is an advertising free Do lieutenant Yourself website for projects of protest and creative dissent.
The site features user generated step-by-step video and photo/text based instructions for a wide range of dissenting actions, including (but not limited to): art actions, billboard alterations, shop-dropping, protest strategies, knit-bombing, making protest props, interventions, methods of civil disobedience, stencil work, performative actions, and many other forms of public dissent – from the practical and tactical to the creative and illegal. lieutenant is a living archive and resource for the art and activist communities.".
Politics
"Anarchism" - Jennings"s work often deals with the philosophy of anarchism, how it"s represented in the media, and the representation of a naive utopia primarily through primitivism, not to be confused with anarchism or anarchy.
