|Photo: Poster Boy|
After recently teaming up with Jordan Seiler of Public Ad Campaign, in a series of work that promises to become bolder as the project develops, Poster Boy has expanded his collaboration further, forming alliances with Ellis Gallagher and Aakash Nihalani, to form a new collective, Neo-Con. Poster Boy noted that the latest work was “originally a collaboration between Poster Boy and Jordan…However, Aakash and Ellis couldn’t wait to get their filthy mitts on the blutiful wall.”

ANIMAL recently caught up with Jordan via email to catch up and talk about the new work, and what we can expect from these artists in the future, who intend to scope out illegal advertising outdoors to create new public space. Talking about the spots they used in their latest collaboration, he said, “They are private contracts between the landlord and NPA outdoor that are not permitted by the DOB…our first collab would be to hit those during the day to see what we could get away with, to see if the cops stopped us —which they didn’t.”
All of these artists are working in the public space, often during the day while commuters, pedestrians, and even police pass by going on about their day. The work they create has fallen into a gray area of legality, with Ellis for instance being reknown for the roadblocks he has faced while working. Jordan explained plans to boldly push this issue further, “[T]his spring would be a much larger version of this project. Ideally we would get together about 40 people to go out during the day like me and PB did, painting about half the NPA ads white. Maybe 250… As you can see what Akash and Ellis did fits into this idea. PB and I believe that advertising is responsible for the criminalization of public space usage by the people who actually live in the city. By releasing the space back to the people we are illustrating the environment we would want to live in as opposed to the one we currently live under.” -Paolo Mastrangelo