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There were many social issues that offended me and provoked a burning passion in me to speak out. Civil rights, the war in Vietnam, culture intolerance, the environment, abuses of power... I came of age in the sixties. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

There were many social issues that offended me and provoked a burning passion in me to speak out. Civil rights, the war in Vietnam, culture intolerance, the environment, abuses of power... I came of age in the sixties.

If government and big business could access the media to get their messages out, I figured I could too. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

If government and big business could access the media to get their messages out, I figured I could too.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

American Celebrity

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

News

The media became not just a vehicle to get attention about an event, but a medium in itself, to be shaped and molded and instilled with my social-political agenda. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

The media became not just a vehicle to get attention about an event, but a medium in itself, to be shaped and molded and instilled with my social-political agenda.

To be successful, this project had to appear completely real. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

To be successful, this project had to appear completely real.

So the fact that the media all jump on a story in a similar fashion is not surprising. The opposite, when a voice cuts through to say something different or original, is surprising. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

So the fact that the media all jump on a story in a similar fashion is not surprising. The opposite, when a voice cuts through to say something different or original, is surprising.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

American Celebrity

So I began doing confrontational, iconoclastic performances, bringing my artwork into the public arena, like the Easter Sunday Crucifixion in 1966, which started when I dragged a 200-pound ten-foot-tall sculpture depicting a decayed figure on a cross into Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

So I began doing confrontational, iconoclastic performances, bringing my artwork into the public arena, like the Easter Sunday Crucifixion in 1966, which started when I dragged a 200-pound ten-foot-tall sculpture depicting a decayed figure on a cross into Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side.

They, the government/church/corporation, give out a daily news pill. Everything you want or need to know, you ingest and digest. As a result, you buy the products, share the beliefs, and vote the right way. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

They, the government/church/corporation, give out a daily news pill. Everything you want or need to know, you ingest and digest. As a result, you buy the products, share the beliefs, and vote the right way.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

American Celebrity

Technology and consciousness are evolutionary and co-dependant. Change is inevitable. Where it leads will always be a great curiosity. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

Technology and consciousness are evolutionary and co-dependant. Change is inevitable. Where it leads will always be a great curiosity.

I predict a revolution in media delivery. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I predict a revolution in media delivery.

In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.

The media's job is to question a premise. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

The media's job is to question a premise.

American Celebrity

In 1969 I hung a Fifty Foot Brassiere on the US Treasury Building to poke fun at leering Wall Street workers and placed grotesque Statues of Liberty in Astor Place in the East Village as a war protest. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

In 1969 I hung a Fifty Foot Brassiere on the US Treasury Building to poke fun at leering Wall Street workers and placed grotesque Statues of Liberty in Astor Place in the East Village as a war protest.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and maneuvered. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and maneuvered.

Media

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

Celebrations of anniversaries of disasters, such as nuclear power plant meltdowns or political assassinations, provide opportunities, as do holidays. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

Celebrations of anniversaries of disasters, such as nuclear power plant meltdowns or political assassinations, provide opportunities, as do holidays.

In 1966, I built a crucifix and dragged it down the street on four consecutive Easters to protest man's inhumanity to man and to comment on the hypocrisy of the church. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

In 1966, I built a crucifix and dragged it down the street on four consecutive Easters to protest man's inhumanity to man and to comment on the hypocrisy of the church.

Sensationalism gets them every time. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

Sensationalism gets them every time.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

American Celebrity

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

American Celebrity

How the media interpreted (they got it wrong), editorialized (they condescended) and criticized (they attacked) these performances inspired me to actually use the media more directly, to make my point. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

How the media interpreted (they got it wrong), editorialized (they condescended) and criticized (they attacked) these performances inspired me to actually use the media more directly, to make my point.

Media

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs.

But I'm as susceptible as anyone else. At the same time, I'm highly skeptical. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

But I'm as susceptible as anyone else. At the same time, I'm highly skeptical.

I've always been a fine artist. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I've always been a fine artist.

American Celebrity

I wanted to use the Internet because while fact and fiction are so easily manipulated and blurred, it has also become an ubiquitous and supposedly reliable source for information. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I wanted to use the Internet because while fact and fiction are so easily manipulated and blurred, it has also become an ubiquitous and supposedly reliable source for information.

King of the world wouldn't be enough. I'd have to be god of the universe (the Wizard of Oz would suffice). - Joey Skaggs Quotes

King of the world wouldn't be enough. I'd have to be god of the universe (the Wizard of Oz would suffice).

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

American Celebrity Fools And Foolishness

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

American Celebrity

Revelation is the most important aspect of the process. That's the point where consciousness can change. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

Revelation is the most important aspect of the process. That's the point where consciousness can change.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

American Celebrity

Other times you can use a calendar to predict the kinds of stories the media is looking for. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

Other times you can use a calendar to predict the kinds of stories the media is looking for.

Media

I want people to be amused or amazed but fooled. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I want people to be amused or amazed but fooled.

I loved painting and sculpting, but realized how difficult it was for a young artist to be taken seriously by the art establishment. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I loved painting and sculpting, but realized how difficult it was for a young artist to be taken seriously by the art establishment.

I didn't want or need anyone's permission. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I didn't want or need anyone's permission.

They don't want the public to question their credibility as an investigative news source. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

They don't want the public to question their credibility as an investigative news source.

My art became very public. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

My art became very public.

American Celebrity Art

We're pulling something together that you definitely don't want to miss. Be there. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

We're pulling something together that you definitely don't want to miss. Be there.

When something seemingly adverse happens, I use it as an opportunity. Controversies help to distract reporters from questioning the original premise. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

When something seemingly adverse happens, I use it as an opportunity. Controversies help to distract reporters from questioning the original premise.

But my favorite work is always my next piece. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

American Celebrity Work

I look at past work as completed, although I'm pleased that each of the pieces seems to have a life of its own and that the issues are still relevant. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I look at past work as completed, although I'm pleased that each of the pieces seems to have a life of its own and that the issues are still relevant.

I realized early on that the business of art was the antithesis to the creative process and I decided to circumvent the traditional art market. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I realized early on that the business of art was the antithesis to the creative process and I decided to circumvent the traditional art market.

I was primarily a painter, although I was classically trained in a wide spectrum of mediums. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I was primarily a painter, although I was classically trained in a wide spectrum of mediums.

After years of people sitting on their butts in front one screen or another, looking at or reading about other people's lives and events, a multi-national corporation connected to a global political party manipulates everyone into believing that information derived this way is unhealthy. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

After years of people sitting on their butts in front one screen or another, looking at or reading about other people's lives and events, a multi-national corporation connected to a global political party manipulates everyone into believing that information derived this way is unhealthy.

I was young and audacious. So I created a way to express my concerns outside of the establishment. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

I was young and audacious. So I created a way to express my concerns outside of the establishment.

My hope is that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

My hope is that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

The issues of my performances vary, but most of the questions buried in the work remain the same. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

The issues of my performances vary, but most of the questions buried in the work remain the same.

Work

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it. - Joey Skaggs Quotes

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

American Celebrity

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