Paris '68 Redux



Paris '68 Redux reinterprets the work of the “Atelier Poplulaire”. The “AP” were groups of students, union members and everyone coming together (in Paris May, 1968), work-shopping ideas, then voting on which ones to mass produce, printing tons and going straight out to fly post Paris.
For their work check out this mega book: Beauty Is in the Street by Philippe Vermès, Johan Kugelberg.
Unfortunately over 50 years on… SAME SHIT and we’re getting ECOLOGICAL BREAKDOWN coming down on us, the only answer is DISOBEY NOW with beautiful ephemeral art with love and revellion in our hearts.
All you need is thin paper for the posters (chip shop paper), thick paper for cutting stencils and emulsion paint etc… then have a workshop and make tons.
Things you will need

A4 printer
Tracing paper
eraser
newsprint
cutting mat
scalpel handle and 10A scalpel blades
scissors
4" foam rollers and 4" paint trays
2B pencil
masking tape
275g paper

Selection of emulsion paint (see XR colours form the design programme)
Recommended paper 275g bread and butter paper.

Stencils
Download and print pdf files to use for this technique.
Hourglass

Complete - Hourglass

Section 1 | Section 2 | Section 3 | Section 4

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Swallow

Complete - Swallow

Section 1 | Section 2 | Section 3 | Section 4

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Cross Bones

Complete Cross Bones

Section 1 | Section 2 | Section 3 | Section 4

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Empathy, Humility for Life

Complete - Empathy Humility for Life

Section 1 | Section 2 |Section 3 | Section 4

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Joy Grief Rebel

Complete - Joy Grief Rebel

Section 1 | Section 2 | Section 3 | Section 4 | Section 5 | Section 6 | Section 7

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Skull

Complete - Skull

Section 1 | Section 2 | Section 3 | Section 4

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Ampersand (&)

Complete ampersand

Section 1 | Section 2 | Section 3 | Section 4

All Stencils
All the stencils above and more are collected together in a dropbox folder here
Examples
Lots of example images on this website by #bodypolitic