Poster 11 x 18”
A collaboration with Amy Bowen, Dee Williams and Haruko Tanaka

 

What are the LA Riots about? Who were the players? Where did it begin? Will it happen again? With these and many more questions in mind, artists Bia Gayotto, Haruko Tanaka, Dee Williams and social activist Amy Bowen used the letters of L.A.R.I.O.T.S to create a poster to commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots. Inspired by John Cage’s mesostic poems, the poster has a similar vertical and horizontal structure, where notions of dominance and control (verticality) intersect with democracy and change (horizontality). John Cage believed in social utopia. The poster emphasize the importance of individual acts in social change.