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 I'm standing here with Spider from Spain. You are one of the artists who exhibits his work today at the

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 Kalle Libre festival and tomorrow of course. Could you tell us a bit about yourself, where you're

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 from and what you do in your artwork? Well I'm Spider Tag and I'm a street artist and muralist.

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 I've been almost for 20 years doing street art.

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 And well, at a certain moment in my career,

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 I decided to look for something new, innovative and avant-garde

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 into the street art worldwide movement.

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 And that's how, after years of experimentation failing and testing I

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 came up with this idea of interactive neon murals that it's basically murals

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 that using by using a neon technology new technology you can download a simple

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 app you can change colors do some other stuff like blinking or fading or whatever in order

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 that anyone by by using this application by downloading this application that you don't

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 even have to sign in you can play and make let's say your own part of the mural. So that's why it's an interactive neon mural.

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 And that's my proposal here for Linz,

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 for the city of Linz, for this project, for Calle Libre.

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 And yeah, I'm happy to be here.

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 It's been like 10, 12 days in the city, working super hard.

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 But finally we made it and we are,

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 all the artists are, we are super happy of doing this project and

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 new art for the city which is absolutely super important to live in cities, in areas. Every

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 quartier deserves to have art, public art, street art because it's a way to same as trees same as gardens same as space for

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 bikes it's a it's the way to be very humans. Thank you very much. What was the

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 process of being chosen as an artist for this festival? So did you have to send an

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 application or were you chosen from a pool of artists yeah well um i i receive an email that's

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 more or less how how it works normally i'm international worldwide uh well let's say

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 well-known uh artists so usually like people organizations like calle libre or other types of

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 curators and stuff they they they call you they send you

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 dms through instagram or tiktok or whatever and telling you an idea and a project they they want

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 to do with you and then this process starts normally a month ago and then it's a process

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 yeah it's something that it takes time it takes a developing of things and yeah and finally one day you come here

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 sometimes the airplane company lose your luggage so you stay like all time with

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 no no no luggage so you have to survive with that uh but um yeah the idea is to travel the world to to

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 meet people to to know every uh as much as possible to to be this exchange of of cultural

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 exchange and art exchange and also experience to to people and to understand how city works how

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 different uh feelings uh works to and then you you leave your mark somehow and it's your your

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 your way to to make a new art into the city for the city and for the world thank you very much

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 we're standing right now in front of your mural could you tell us a bit about it? What was the idea behind it? What was the process of making it?

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 Yeah, well, this is, well, it's turned on now, but it's not just for this press conference and so.

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 Because this is thought to be turned on every day from 7 p.m. 11 p.m i guess so basically because it needs as any public light

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 it needs to be seen during the night it's a night a mural it's a night project so my idea in this

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 case especially was talking about in with my own words with my own language which which i call

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 primitivism futuristic or futuristic primitivism

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 that i'm developing during the years my my own language my own way of of of expressing myself

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 with these techniques but basically in this there is some hidden

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 concepts about time because it's it's in the watchtower of the city and it's a

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 bit this building has more than 100 years they told me and they show me my my world was over there I was doing on the old watchtower so I was developing

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 some kind of abstract and ideas but thinking about time. Thank you. What does

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 your mural or your artwork have to do with the festival theme?

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 Basically, as I said, my language is called

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 Futuristic Primitivism.

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 So my concept basically was to take since I started to develop that innovative

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 idea to take somehow the origins of human creativity symbols for example

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 into the new technology of today.

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 And the Mixt talks about the future, the feelings.

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 Right now, you don't see it because it's 10 a.m. in the morning.

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 But if you came at night every day, every night, you will see what it means.

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 The power of the lights, the power of the neon, the concept, it's a futuristic idea.

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 There is no any specific message or whatever. It's more my murals are more about the experience

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 that in my mind, what I'm glad is when you see it,

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 you don't understand what it means,

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 but you are attracted and you want to go

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 and take a close look to this,

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 which is the Interactive Neon Mural 26.

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 This is specifically the name of this artwork.

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 And also, yeah, there's a, oh yeah,

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 I would like to say that there's a contest that

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 today tonight for the for the opening if you if you follow spider tag on on

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 Instagram on Kaliber also you can win my special glasses and t-shirts and stuff

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 so go to Instagram and check it because it's a my these are not the glasses that

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 i'm using because they're again um it's uh too early in the morning but the ones i have in my

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 pocket that i'm showing you right now that but you won't you won't be able to see it are also like

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 interactive so uh these are my my special glasses and they are signed by SpiderTag.

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 You can see.

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 Yee-hoo!

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 And same, you can win a pair of glasses signed by me and also with an application you can

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 write whatever you want on the glasses.

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 So I think this is also an initiative that is part of the whole idea of my artworks.

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 So also people can have a piece of my art and become a little bit like me,

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 like a superhero, like a street art superhero, like Spider-Tank.

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 I'm standing here with Jaoan from Bulgaria, from Sofia to be more specific, in front of

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 So I was invited by Jakob from Kale Libre to participate and the team this year is addressing tomorrow so i thought about it and what is

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 addressing tomorrow and what do we need to improve uh for for better tomorrow and i was thinking

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 about the word balance because uh when we have balance within ourselves we can bring this balance to the world

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 and if more people have the balance, don't go to extremes, be happy with themselves

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 we can live in a better world, so that's what my mural is about

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 It's very beautiful and for the people who can't see it

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 it's a picture, a photorealistic picture of a woman.

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 As opposed to the other murals, it's photorealistic.

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 What was the process of making it? What were the sources of inspiration for it?

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 So my style of painting is with very vibrant colors, also contrasting each other. So this is how I grab the attention, you know,

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 and also with the colors, they have an emotional influence.

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 And in the composition, the main character is a woman

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 and she's representing the beauty of our world.

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 that we can manage anything we want.

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 What's also grabbing my attention in this mural are those abstract or more those ornamental pieces on the mural.

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 What are those about there are uh there is the the sun symbol it's embroidery

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 from eastern europe so it could be this it's the sun but also could be a flower

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 depending how what colors you use that's why in her hand is is she's holding a yellow one which

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 is like the the sun the sunshine you know, the source of life.

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 And also in her head is the flower, like you know, symbolizing again the beauty around us.

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 Very beautiful. So taking inspiration from traditional Eastern European elements.

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 Actually, this is the first big wall, but I've been here before for another project,

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 which was about migratory birds that connect Bulgaria and Austria.

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 And where can we see that mural?

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 It's at the wall facing the railway, the wall of the cemetery.

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 Yeah, it's really beautiful.

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 There is also a thing I didn't mention, the background.

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 You see that there are some light colors and darker colors with the shape, with some random shapes.

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 und dunkler Farben mit der Form, mit einigen randomen Formen. Eigentlich sind das die Wörter der Wörter, die im Deutsch, im Deutsch, gleichgewichtig sind.

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 Ja, genau, gleichgewichtig.

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 Also alles um die Hintergründe, aber es sieht abstrakt aus.

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 Aber ich habe diese Wörter in der Komposition implementiert.

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 Vielen Dank für diese Informationen.

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 Eigentlich hätte ich es nicht bemerkt.

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 Nein, du kannst es alle lesre, aber auch Fahrer, Butzfrau, Essenslieferant, Assistent, Bürokraft und hin und wieder auch Türsteher.

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 sehr viele Aufgaben bei dir vereint. Magst du uns ein bisschen was über das CAI Libre Festival erzählen? Vor allem über die Ausstellung hier in Linz, wie ihr auch an die KünstlerInnen gekommen seid?

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 CAI Libre ist ein Streetart-Verein aus Wien.

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 Uns gibt es seit 13 Jahren.

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 Die Künstler haben wir ausgesucht auf Basis von ihren Ästhetiken und ihren Stilen.

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 Wir wollten einen schönen bunten Mix haben, auch aus lokalen, nationalen und internationalen Artists.

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 Und ja, die österreichische Post hat uns diese wunderschöne Fläche zur Verfügung gestellt.

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 Und jetzt sind wir mit dem größten Street-Art-Ensemble Österreichs hier in Linz-Persen.

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 Was war die Idee dahinter?

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 hier in Linz-Posent.

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 Was war die Idee dahinter, Street Art, das was viele einfach als Schmierereien oder Graffiti abtun,

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 in etwas Offizielles, in eine Kunstausstellung zu verwandeln, die auch

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 vielleicht ein bisschen aus der Illegalität in die Öffentlichkeit hineintritt, sogar von dem Bürgermeister selbst vorgestellt wird?

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 Genau, also wir sagen ja Urban Art oder urbane Ästhetik. Wir sind per se kein Graffiti, weil Graffiti ist meistens ungefragt und illegal und sehr buchstabenbasiert.

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 Wir arbeiten mit ganz anderen Techniken. Wir haben mit dem Interactive Neon Mural eine urbane Intervention, wo das Publikum auch interagieren kann damit. Also wir gehen auch neue Wege und wichtig ist uns, dass die Leute in Berührung kommen in ihrem Alltag. Man kann quasi hier zuschauen, vorbeigehen,

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 egal wie alt oder von wo man ist, alt, jung, groß, klein, jeder kann es sehen.

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 Sehr schön. Es sind ja insgesamt acht KünstlerInnen, die ausgestellt werden,

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 vier sieht man hier draußen schon, Die anderen sind drin, richtig?

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 Richtig, genau. Also man hat hier das Ensemble draußen mit 2200 Quadratmetern und drinnen nochmal ungefähr 400.

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 Was war so der Organisationsablauf? Was musste gemacht werden, damit es zu dieser Ausstellung, zu diesem Festival kommen konnte?

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 Ja, das würde den Rahmen sprengen, das alles zu erklären jetzt.

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 Aber von der Künstlerauswahl über die Designs bis hin zum Abgleich mit den Behörden, Eventtechnik und Organisation.

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 Also ich weiß gar nicht, wo ich anfangen soll, was man hier alles machen muss.

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 Aber auf jeden Fall die technische Umsetzung ist auf jeden Fall sehr herausfordernd, wenn

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 man Steine anbauen muss, Kabel verlegen muss und eben in einem Areal arbeitet, wo die ganze

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 Zeit Verkehr und Fußgänger sind.

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 Es ist sehr schön, was man hier sehen kann, aber es wird wahrscheinlich nicht lange halten.

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 Das Festival ist heute und morgen, also 18. und 19. September. Was passiert mit den Kunstwerken danach?

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 Also sie bleiben bis auf Weiteres bestehen. Wie lange das ist, kann ich auch nicht genau sagen,

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 aber mindestens ein bis zwei Jahre. Und die Kunstform hat sich immer schon durch seine Ephemeralität ausgezeichnet.

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 Die Vergänglichkeit ist einfach inhärent mit dieser Kunstform verbunden.

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 Wir haben gar nicht den Anspruch, etwas für die Ewigkeit zu machen,

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 aber zumindest für eine Zeit lang wollen wir die Menschen berühren.

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 Dankeschön.

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 Also Jakob, das würde mich jetzt schon interessieren, war diese Mural Art immer legal oder hat das,

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 wie hat das gestartet?

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 Nein, Moral Art,

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 kann man schon sagen, entwickelt sich aus dem Graffiti

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 die Leuten auch gefallen und dann hat man

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 Menschen gefunden, die das auch erlauben.

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 Das heißt, dein Interesse,

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 kommt das ausschließlich aus der Organisation von dem Ganzen oder hast du selber Menschen gefunden, die das auch erlauben. Das heißt, dein Interesse kommt

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 ausschließlich aus der Organisation von dem Ganzen oder hast du selber

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 einmal gestartet mit so was? Wie ist dieser Verein zustande gekommen?

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 Ich habe Bilder in der Kunst studiert und über urbane Kunst in Lateinamerika

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 Promo wird. Daher kommt auch der Name Calle Libre, der heißt freie Straße.

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 Mir geht es eigentlich hauptsächlich um die Kunst. Mein Interesse ist in den Motiven und in den Ideologien und in den Beweggründen

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 der Künstlerinnen. Wie kann man teilnehmen bei K.E. Libre? Kann da jeder dazukommen und

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 sich bewerben oder wie funktioniert das? Ja, man kann sich bewerben bei uns, man kann uns

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 anschreiben, man kann uns das Portfolio schicken und vielleicht ergibt sich eine Wand.