{"id":2616,"date":"2016-04-04T17:55:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2016-04-04T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:55:50","slug":"oree-originol-police-brutality-and-the-politics-of-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/oree-originol-police-brutality-and-the-politics-of-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Oree Originol, Police Brutality, and the Politics of Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brownLivesMatter.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2617\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2617\" src=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brownLivesMatter.png\" alt=\"brownLivesMatter\" width=\"2800\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brownLivesMatter.png 2800w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brownLivesMatter-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brownLivesMatter-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brownLivesMatter-1024x512.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based in Oakland, CA, Oree Originol is an artist who has made work around social justice, in particular police violence against black and brown bodies.\u00a0He created a poster series called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebolditalic.com\/articles\/5531-artist-seeks-justice-for-black-and-brown-lives-that-matter\">Our Lives Matter<\/a>&#8221; featuring people of color\u00a0murdered by the police. These posters were important parts of community organizing around #BlackLivesMatter in the Bay Area, and some posters even featured details of upcoming meetings and demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The politics of the poster as a medium are contested. Posters are easily dismissed as propaganda or street art. They can seem too political to be taken seriously by traditional arts institutions. Because they aim to disseminate information, posters can seem purely instrumental rather than aesthetic.\u00a0Interestingly, Oree Originol&#8217;s work has made its way into galleries and museums in the\u00a0Bay Area, challenging this usual divide between political posters and &#8220;high art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CKoBVi8VEAA4Euo.jpg-large.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2619\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2619\" src=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CKoBVi8VEAA4Euo.jpg-large.jpeg\" alt=\"CKoBVi8VEAA4Euo.jpg-large\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CKoBVi8VEAA4Euo.jpg-large.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CKoBVi8VEAA4Euo.jpg-large-220x300.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CKoBVi8VEAA4Euo.jpg-large-768x1048.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CKoBVi8VEAA4Euo.jpg-large-751x1024.jpeg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based in Oakland, CA, Oree Originol is an artist who has made work around social justice, in particular police violence against black and brown bodies.\u00a0He created a poster series called &#8220;Our Lives Matter&#8221; featuring people of color\u00a0murdered by the police. These posters were important parts of community organizing around #BlackLivesMatter in the Bay Area, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/oree-originol-police-brutality-and-the-politics-of-posters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oree Originol, Police Brutality, and the Politics of Posters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":938,"featured_media":2619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[372],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}