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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.

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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.

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