Presentation that I did for Interesting New York.

1. “Credo Quia
Absurdum Est.”
Political Street Art from Bucharest
Alexandru Rosu - www.brici.ro
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2. Street Art is
Public Memory
• “After two weeks, everyone
forgets about it”
• “If it’s not on the news, it never
happened”
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3. Street Art is
Public Memory
• battle for attention is huge;
• advertising campaigns usually last
13 weeks;
• street art lasts; it is not replaced
by something else after 2 months
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4. Street Art is
Civil Disobedience
• illegal
• anti-establishment
• protest
• incites to action
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5. Nicolae
Ceausescu
• dictator;
• killed during the
Romanian
revolution;
• loads of people still
miss him
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8. Ion Iliescu
• former prominent
member of RCP,
marginalized
• managed to get hold
of power after 1989;
• managed to stay in
office 3 terms, despite
the constitution says
only 2;
• called the miners to
Bucharest, and held
back development
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12. Corneliu Vadim Tudor
• Ultra-nationalist,
anti-everything-
non-Romanian-
and-christian-
orthodox;
• he was a
“people’s poet”
before 1989;
• he is generally
considered
insane;
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14. Adrian
Nastase
• Ion Iliescu’s right
hand; Prime
Minister 2000 - ‘04;
• accused of major
acts of corruption;
• under his
government,
general level of
corruption was
huge; presidential
candidate
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16. Traian
Basescu
• Sailor before 1989;
• not any political role;
• used to run a micro-
scale smuggling
operation (common)
• 2004 - seen as
Romania’s only
chance against
corruption
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24. Iraq War.
Global Politics.
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