THE NO HATE PAGE
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PINKBOY
Serigraph, 16 x 16", A/P, 2015
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PIG
Serigraph with Monotype, 20 x 16", Edition of 28, 2014
Collaboration with Leon Johnson and Leander Johnson for the "SNAKES, SWINE AND COCKS" portfolio curated by Brian Kelly
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Yik Yak Talk Back
Serigraph on T-shirts, 2014
Community project initiated by racist Yik Yak comments at Georgia College.
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Mise en Abyme
Serigraph and Archival Digital Print on Tyvek, 18 x 14", Edition of 17, 2012
For the portfolio exchange "Inverse Surveillance and Targeted Sousveillance," curated by Justin Diggle*** CAPGRAS DELUSION
Fb experiment, 2012
Jamais Vu et l'illusion des sosies***
Dixie Icons
Archival Digital Print, 2011
Fire House Gallery, Louisville, GA
In pressed trousers and crisp blue shirt...
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Reap
Serigraph with Gold Leaf on Rives BFK, 20 x 16", Edition of 55, 2011
For the portfolio exchange, "East/West," curated by Brian Kelly
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Ploutos: Chronicles of the Superrich
Art Action, 2011
Plutus is blind (indiscriminate); lame (slow to accumulate); and winged (quick to disappear)***
No Hate Crimes (Reported): Grand Rapids
Digital prints, acetate, MDF, 4 x 6' each
UICA Billboards, 2010***
Planet of Love
Global Action, 2010
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The Fearful Prey
Serigraph and Monotype, 6" x 5"
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Friendly Reminders....
Digital and Xerographic Prints, 11" x 8.5", 2009
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Public Offering, 2008
DELICATE SENSIBILITIES
Double-Sided Serigraph, 11" x 14", 2007
Click on image for Fisher's printsThe conversation shifted. Quiet dialogues began, some drank silently, someone left. After a few minutes the war in Iraq was mentioned. The group began to debate the legality of the war, and the correct way to achieve its resolution. This was a politically diverse group of acquaintances and the discussion was civil, but lively. The man who earlier found the idea of infant feces to be revolting, spoke with a calm, assured voice. "What we need to do, and I'm talking about the whole fucking Middle East, we need to nuke the shit out of them. Nuke the whole goddamn place."
Performance Action, Georgia College, 2007
Marine Recruiter: "I wish my buddies were here..."
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Public Offering, 2007-08
Richard A. Lou and Bill Fisher, Mixed Media Construction, 80" x 24" X 24", 2006-07
Colonial Towers in "Art Papers"
Seritypes: A Genetic Screening Project
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In answer to those who would demand we disregard the Constitution and common decency and live in silent, surveilled fear of unseen, dark enemies as proof of our patriotism, we now reaffirm our belief in a shared humanity.
Update:
Combining the genetic material supplied by hundreds of international participants with our serigraphic inks, the phenotypes of the (arguably) two most powerful men on the planet merge. Though seemingly polar opposites politically and philosophically, their rich common ground is now reified for all to witness.
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MISSING STEREOTYPES,
Postering Project (Richard Lou and Bill Fisher), 8" x 10", 2005
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ÁMissing Stereotypes Missing!: Projects Censored in Georgia Exhibition: Click Here
MISSING STEREOTYPES MISSING,
Postering Project (Richard Lou and Bill Fisher), 8" x 10", 2005
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Press
AP Article
Gainesville Times
Vivir Latino Interview
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Bill Fisher and Richard A. Lou's "Missing Stereotypes" explores the media's narration of the "Runaway Bride", Jennifer Wilbanks, and her mythically racist account of being "kidnapped" at gun point and sexually assaulted by a Hispanic man and white woman....
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No Hate Crimes (Reported)
NY/TX: No Hate Crimes (Reported)
NY/TX: No Hate Detail
GA: No Hate Crimes (Reported)
Public Arts Project Proposal, Bill Fisher,2005
GA: No Hate Detail
Public Arts Project Proposal, 2005Modeled on the "No Traffic Fatalities in ____ Days" signs seen in some communities. The information is communicated through the conflict of emotions these signs elicit: as we feel relief or civic pride over a (seemingly) long period of time without a traffic death (or local hate crime), we are at the same time reminded of an unpleasant truth, in this case the knowledge that the denial of basic civil and human rights exists right here and vicious acts of destruction are perpetrated close to home. When the day-count numbers are low, this realization may be most powerful. Awareness of this issue, as with all social maladies, can be the first stage of a fundamentally decent population affecting positive social change within its community.
A brief list of hate crimes in Georgia as reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center:
Lawrenceville, Published on 08-28-2005. Swastikas and obscenities were burned into the lawn of a Jewish family's home.
Covington, Published on 03-24-2005. Racial slurs and swastikas were spray painted on a black man's truck. The windows were smashed and the tires were also slashed.
Statesboro, Published on 11-06-2004. Anti-gay epithets were spray-painted on a gay student's car at Georgia Southern University. Ê
Athens, Published on 09-13-2004. Swastikas and a racial epithet were spray- painted on a black family's home. Ê
Tucker, Published on 05-20-2004. Racist graffiti was found on the running track at a high school. Ê
Trenton, Published on 05-07-2004. Six white men, Terrel Timothy Garner, Stacy Paul Jones, Steven Garland Jones, Jeremy Ray Sims, Eric Shane Sullivan and Billy Richard Wells, pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge of conspiracy to deprive civil rights for burning a cross in the yard of a woman whose daughter has a biracial boyfriend.
Canton, Published Winter, 2004. Four white students from Cherokee High School abduct a Latino man who is then subjected to a 30-minute pummeling, leaving him bruised and blooded from his thighs to his neck.
YARD SIGN 1
Digital Print on Tyvek, Wooden Stakes, 18" x 24", 2004
Red, white and blue signs, approximately 1.5' x 2', are to be placed in front yards and other public locations. They are designed to resemble the ubiquitous yard signs* printed commercially and posted in front of homes and businesses throughout the southern USA. The "Ten Commandments" yard sign includes text from the Geneva Convention as it relates specifically to treatment of prisoners. "Support Our Troops" includes officially suppressed imagery of the remains of US servicemen and servicewomen. "Re-Elect" makes explicit the merging of secular and religious iconography implied by the rhetoric of our political leaders. "Home For Sale" includes an image of the American flag, violently out of focus.
If you would like to display these signs in your yard or elsewhere, click here to download a "10 Commandments" pdf file, here to download "Support Our Troops," here to download "Home For Sale," or here to download "Re-Elect," all suitable for printing. You will either need a large format printer, or you can resize the image for your printer. I ask that you send E-mail confirmation of your participation, and if possible, digital documentation of your sign in place to wwfisher@charter.net or william.fisher@gcsu.edu, or photographs may be mailed to Bill Fisher, CBX 094, GC&SU, Milledgeville, Georgia 31061. Please feel free to encourage others to participate.
Project Rationale
As our political leaders and media now focus on the outrage felt over the recent release of images of torture and humiliation of Iraqi Prisoners of War, it appears the "illegal" release of such images may be as repugnant as the actual abuses or their underlying causes.
This may be inferred from the following excerpted testimony by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld... Full Text of Yard Sign Project
"Communicative action can be understood as a circular process in which the actor is two things in one: an initiator, who masters situations through actions for which he is accountable, and a product of the transitions surrounding him, of groups whose cohesion is based on solidarity to which he belongs, and of processes of socialization in which he is reared."-- Jurgen Habermas
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- Paulo Freire
"There is no mystery to making history." -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
Full Text of Re-Present
"Public Exhibition: Private Affections"
Monday January 21 is a National Holiday in honor and remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the great proponent of non-violence, tolerance and equality. In response to an incident of road rage we experienced recently in Milledgeville, the recent shootings at Martin Luther King Jr. High School, and other national and international Public Displays of Aggression...
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