Art is what I say it is, or what the artist says it is. Albert Reyes may be a street performer, but the product sounds like art or Art (not sure which).
Spit Art Albert Reyes shows his paintings and prints in small galleries, and his designs have a cachet in the arcane world of art T-shirts. But this year, it's his spit that has drawn the most attention.The discovery of spit art was a happy accident. Reyes and a girlfriend were out walking, and when he spilled his drink on the sidewalk, they were astonished: it looked just like a chicken. I can do that, Reyes thought. It was like graffiti without consequences. Reyes’s spit-art performances now regularly accompany his openings; he commandeers a sidewalk in front of the gallery, takes a mouthful and begins. The ubiquitous jug wine at these shows also provides Reyes with his favorite medium, which he prefers to water. “I can make a very fine line with white wine,” Reyes says. “It’s like a sharpened pencil.”
direct link to Albert Reyes performance video here
seems part of the same 'movement' that Paul Curtis belongs too:
The British artist Paul Curtis is not sure what to call his version of vandalism. “People call it ‘reverse graffiti,’ ” he says, “but I prefer something less sinister: ‘clean tagging’ or ‘grime writing.’ ” Curtis, a k a Moose, selectively scrubs dirty, derelict city property (tunnel walls, sidewalks) so that words and images are formed by the cleaned bits. “It’s refacing,” he says, “not defacing. Just restoring a surface to its original state. It’s very temporary. It glows and it twinkles, and then it fades away.”To pay for industrial scrubbers, he has sold some of his reverse graffiti as advertising. But mostly he sticks to his own art. Critics, like the City Council in Leeds, have accused him of breaking the law, but for what? Cleaning without a permit? “Once you do this,” he says, “you make people confront whether or not they like people cleaning walls or if they really have a problem with personal expression.”
