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So, Bergen Kommune is considering/ has decided to

So, Bergen Kommune is considering/ has decided to remove this whole wall because of complaints regarding the first image in this series. The removal will include the “Pride” piece in support of imprisoned LGBT rights activist, Yulia Tsvetkova.

A few points that don’t seem to be making it into a number of media outlets are:

that- I was contacted after the planning stage of this project, with a specific request to make an inclusive political statement in the same spirit as “Laugh”(2015).

that- I was informed and reassured that this was not a playground, but rather a meeting place for all residents. None-the-less, this piece could have served as a very balanced foundation for dialogue with-in one of Bergen’s most multicultural districts. The message is one of compassion, solidarity and peaceful solutions. Why on earth would anyone feel the need to shield a child from that? Unless of course they jump to a completely wrong conclusion.

that- I have requested critics to interview the residents in Solheimsviken and ask them if they actually want the wall removed.

This is not the first time my work has been misunderstood, taken out of context or censored. My apologies go out to the locals who appreciate this wall, the other artists involved, and to those who found it offensive.

For the Norwegians out there, here is an interesting analysis of the situation. (LINK IN BIO)

https://bergenkunst.no/mening/fjerner-afk-kommunen-kaster-vekk-mulighet-til-dialog-og-folkeopplysning/

#streetart #gatekunst #afkstreetart #solheimsviken #BERGENPRIDE #bergenstreetart

... and there was just enough room to squeaze in t

... and there was just enough room to squeaze in this old one.
The original lasted a few days before being painted over right before Sykkel VM'en, 2017.

Forget which political, ethnic or religious tribe you belong to, do you support apartheid or the basic human right of self determination?

To #Condemn #WarCrimes IS NOT
#AntiSemitic

#socialmedia #censorship #bds #streetart #gatekunstnorge
#gatekunst #MiddleEast #Israel
#palestine

Thanks for a fun session in the sun @1312ugress, @

Thanks for a fun session in the sun @1312ugress, @helmgraffiti, @miko_wc
-Solheimsgaten 78-ish

@1312ugress and I made this piece to help raise awareness around the persecution of Russian artist and LGBT activist, Yulia Tsvetkova. She was charged in June 2020 with “the criminal distribution of pornography”, for publishing body-positive drawings on social media.
Tsvetkova, who has been a brave advocate for LGBT rights and a vocal critic of the Russian states homophobic stance, now faces 6 years in prison.
Bergen Pride will be aiming for an update on Yulia’s situation on the 10th of June at Pride Park (USF Verftet) via video link with her mother. Everyone is welcome <3

#foryulia #weareyulia #freeyulia #YuliaTsvetkova #VaginaMonologues #LGBT #LGBTI #Pride #BERGENPRIDE @1312ugress @helmgraffiti @miko_wc #graffiti #gatekunst #streetart #bergen #afkstreetart

"Freedom Fries" - Media City Bergen, 2018 This wa

"Freedom Fries" - Media City Bergen, 2018

This was a gift to Media City Bergen, and a little reminder to journalists working there, not to leave out #1 and #2 (see screenshot from political analyst Omar Baddar).

For anyone still struggling to understand why so many are passionate about Palestinian human rights, challenge them to watch this interview with an Israeli Soldier. (link in bio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxJd88xkBU&t=1170s

"Ironys Portrait" by Dust Is this artwork controv

"Ironys Portrait" by Dust

Is this artwork controversial? What should be controversial is the way the Israeli government is tainting the symbol of Judaism.

translated excerpt from TV2.no

- I have nothing at all against Judaism as a religion. I have respect for all religions, but I want to focus on the government in Israel.

- First and foremost, what has happened in Palestine and in the Gaza Strip is very sad. The irony of it is that it takes place almost 100 years after Nazism was on the rise in Germany, he says and continues: At that time the Nazis said that Jews were less valuable than others, they threw them out of their houses and did not look at them as human beings. Today the same thing is happening, and it is Netanyahu who is behind it.

- What is the message you want to send out with this picture? - No one lives forever, but symbols like the Star of David will. The swastika is today a symbol of hatred all over the world.

https://www.tv2.no/a/14013164/

"We cannot breathe" - since 1948. Oil painting by

"We cannot breathe" - since 1948.
Oil painting by Palestinian artist and friend, Shadi Alzaqzouq.
The painting depicts an everyday occurrence in occupied Palestine.
#palestinianlivesmatter #freepalestine
@shadialzaqzouq

Imagine this was happening to you and your fellow

Imagine this was happening to you and your fellow norwegians. Your land, your language, your culture and the lives of everyone you love, slowly erased from the map.
How would you react?
How would you hope the rest of the world reacted?

"Imagine" - from Question Everything exhibition, Media City Bergen, 2018

#sheikh_jarrah #freepalestine

Cake? sanctioned-unsanctioned The girl on the rig

Cake?
sanctioned-unsanctioned

The girl on the right is Amal Hussein from Yemen. She got her 15 minutes of fame in 2018 when she hit the pages of the New York Times, then she died a week later from malnutrition at the age of 7.
The girl on the left is my interpretation of her had she been a bit luckier with her place of birth.
I think the rest speaks for itself.

#amal_hussein #sanctionskill #yemen #syria #afghanistan #iraq #iran #libya #lebanon #haiti #venezuela #+++ #sanctions
#sanctionskill.org
#gatekunst #streetart #afkstreetart

Making a Martyr – help them where they are – t

Making a Martyr – help them where they are – the print.

There has been a lot of demand for this print and after much consideration, I decided it was ready for publication. It will be available on the 3rd of april, kl1200 via Gategalleriet.no

But why now? Well, there are a few reasons, but to be frank the deal breaker came after witnessing reactions to NRK’s, Shaun Henrik Matheson’s rant on Israel recently. He has himself admitted that he went too far, yet the new (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism makes it increasingly difficult to speak about Israeli human rights abuses and poses a direct censorship threat to advocates for Palestinian rights. If Facebook adopts these definitions, which they are on the verge of deciding, then a post that raises legitimate issues can be deemed hate speech and “shadow banned”.

So, I felt compelled to generate income for a Jewish group that is under constant attack, Jewish Voice for Peace, the largest US Jewish group critical of Israel and supporters of the BDS movement.

To call a critic of the Israeli government anti-Semitic, is like calling a critic of apartheid South Africa racist. It is absurd- McCarthyism. We need to see through the identity politics and stand in solidarity with all Jews, Muslims, Christians, humans, fighting to uphold human rights and international law.

So that, and the fact that Easter and Passover coincide, seemed like good symbolic reasons to release this print now.

All income, minus production costs, will go to:

- Jewish Voice for Peace: Human rights organization that seeks through international law to counter anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim and anti-Arab displacement and apartheid in Israel.

- Janita Marolia: A volunteer health worker who runs a Mother and child clinic in the refugee camp in Samos. The money will be used to buy food, medicine, infant formula +++

- PanQuake: A next-generation SoMe messaging app powered by blockchain technology independent of large international companies. The technology is currently under development.

“Abusers” Oscar (23) uses drugs to forget his

“Abusers”

Oscar (23) uses drugs to forget his traumatic childhood. These traumas are relived when he is arrested and forced to strip naked.

Many who develop substance abuse problems have had traumatic childhood experiences. Being locked up, stripped naked or subjected to forced blood tests is extra traumatizing for this group. - excerpt from straffskader.no

Since the war on drugs started in the 70’s, mountains of evidence have piled up that show systematic failures of the dominant punitive paradigm, including widespread human rights violations.

A 2019 report from the UN System Coordination Task Team rejects drug policies based on criminalization, punishment and harsh enforcement. Instead, it endorses evidence based policy rooted in public health, sustainable development, and respect for human rights.

Norway is now on the verge of reforming its policies.
If passed in full, the new legislation will essentially process substance users in a system tailored to caring, removing the shame and stigmatization tied to punishing them as criminals.

One of the misconceptions with this new legislation is that drugs will be legalized. They won’t. Police will still be able to ransack and confiscate, but they will be forced to proceed much more gently and arrests that currently affect social groups disproportionately, will stop. Dealers will still be arrested.

“Fighting inequality and injustice is a more effective way of addressing the global drug problem than prisons and police.” - Julie Hannah, Director of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy.

So what do you think, is Norway ready to internalize the evidence and commit to the values it prides itself on?

For more information visit rusreform.no, straffskader.no, unodc.org

#Abuser #StraffSkader #RusReform #HumanRights #Politics #Potential #ParadigmShift #Empathy #AFK #Streetart

Slippery Slopes Anyone with some A.R. skills out

Slippery Slopes

Anyone with some A.R. skills out there, DM me if you'd like to be part of a cool project.

animation by me.
voices by T-bone.
photo by Øistein Jakobsen

#Socrates #Gorgias #facebookgames #FreeSpeech #montypython #risingtidesociety #climatechange #parler #clubhouse #panquake #DigitalCensorship #Political #Sensitivity #Animation #StreetArt #GateKunst #AFK #AFKartwork @kagalleri

Historically, crackdowns on hate speech always lead to a broader censorship and the oppression of marginalized voices. It's a dangerous slippery slope.

F#CK YEAH!!! This is a victory for human rights a

F#CK YEAH!!!

This is a victory for human rights and Press Freedom world wide!
... Well, a step at least..
🌍❤️🌍❤️🌍❤️🌍❤️🌍❤️🌍
NOW STOP THE PERSECUTION!
Sak'en
Photo @streetartbergen

A new gallery popped up at SV Bergen last night 🙂

A new gallery popped up at SV Bergen last night :)

Breathe was inspired by my conversations with canc

Breathe was inspired by my conversations with cancer and palliative care nurse, Gro Kiil Larsen.

The aim was to raise her voice (which is the voice of many) and help shed light on the struggle of nurses in an understaffed environment, where economic business models are contradictory to best practice health care.

Currently, one in five nurses quit their jobs due to "burnout" . If this attrition rate continues, Norway will have lost 30,000 nurses by 2030, and this is a global trend.

The first step in bringing about positive change is to acknowledge uncomfortable truths.
The solutions are many, but how trustworthy is the political will to prioritize human life over profit?

-AFK

En stor takk til

Gro Kiil Larsen
Norsk Sykepleierforbunet
Piecebypiece
Arne Beck
Marcello Riffo
Andre Lund - Mojo Soundtrack
Ninv- Nina Ugland
Gtugland
Jannicke Øyen

Lin Stokke Anders Schouw Terje Grimmen Hugo Elias Håkon Børs-Lind Jose Alejandro Niklas Gjerstad Hodneland Amalie Thorstensen Sofie Reisænen Natalie Hestdal Mona Jane Fraser Nikita Heggenes

Production projection at KODE 3 Bergen from kl17-2

Production projection at KODE 3 Bergen from kl17-21
(10min loop)
Tromsø event streaming... www.tromso.kommune.no
or
https://www.facebook.com/events/1515817952142037

Candy. Short cuts and laziness... #thoughtless

Candy.
Short cuts and laziness...

#thoughtless #online #shopping #boycottamazon #charming #badgrammar #bergen #duisjevilletenke #supportsmallbusiness #powertothepeople #streetart #gatekunst

@offcarnaby @heimbryggen @malepaletten @paulinavintage @bienrestaurant @regn @lot333store @trekroneren @typbergen @landmark.bergen @nostressbergen @apollonplatebar @pepperstores @planterommet @vrimmel @pharmabergen @cafe_legal @beholdbergen @beholdoslo @gategalleriet_bergen @kagalleri @galleribergen

Unveiling 14th Dec at Tromsø Rådhus. Thanks Gro

Unveiling 14th Dec at Tromsø Rådhus.

Thanks Gro, for the strength you brought to this project through your willingness to go to extremes for the sake of a higher purpose 💚

https://www.itromso.no/pluss/eksklusiv/2020/12/05/Den-beryktede-gatekunstneren-AFK-malte-sykepleier-Gro-%E2%80%93-En-kvinne-i-et-fall-23114169.ece

An "Excellent" new print release for the 24th of N

An "Excellent" new print release for the 24th of November.
6 and 7 layer silkscreen prints handpulled by me and my trusty helpers, with background details by guest artist, @ninjahart 🙏🏻
More info will be available via my webpage and Gategalleriet during the next couple of days.

Concept sketches for an underwater photo shoot 🌊
#sketch #study #concept #analog #digital

The competition is now closed. The last names will

The competition is now closed.
The last names will be added to the pot and the lottery will be drawn at 11pm.
There are now 3 prints up for grabs 🙂
The winners will be announced under this text upon their response.

Kl1130 - congratulations to Mari Kathrine Schmedling!
... waiting for response from the other two winners. If you have not been contacted by me in the last 20min, I'm sorry but you didn't win.
Kl0800 - congratulations to Stina Boge and Jaakko Lintunen!

Lady Justice - interactive Exposing War Crimes Sh

Lady Justice - interactive

Exposing War Crimes Should Always Be Legal. Committing And Hiding Them Should Not.

It’s important to remember that the amount of evil deeds power structures will commit is directly proportional to the amount of information they are permitted to hide from the public. We will not have a healthy world until power and secrecy have an inverse relationship to each other: privacy for rank-and-file individuals and transparency for governments and their officials. - Caitlin Johnstone

#streetart #gatekunst #afk

Do you want to be in the running for a special ”

Do you want to be in the running for a special ”Rain” print?
(information about the print below)
You have to work for it though, and some criteria must be met.

1. like this post*
2. tag at least 4 people* (sugg- Journalists, politicians, prime ministers...)
3. watch the short documentary (link in bio) and answer me in a PRIVATE MESSAGE, "What did the ClA want from Gabriel Ass@nge?"
4. donate 10 Euros or more to one of the following causes and send me a screen shot of the receipt

https://dontextraditeassange.com/donate/

Assanges family https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/julianassange

www.wikileaks.org

* If you want to participate but don’t want to tag someone, you can, but you have to fulfill rule nr. 3 and donate at least 50 Euros instead of 10.

>>> up to 60 participants (facebook + Instagram), 1 print will be in the raffle. Over 60 people, 2 prints. And over 100, 3 prints. The raffle will be drawn in the beginning of November.

Julian Assange’s extradition trial was planned to resume today. It has all the ingredients of a good thriller… torture, obstruction of justice, corrupt judges, severe conflicts of interest, and potentially, one of history’s greatest injustices. Enjoy 😉

DOCUMENTARY – War on Journalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVoUPnXqvNE
or
https://video.emergeheart.info/videos/watch/f2467447-f5a8-45c9-8d08-804d6a2d4747

These prints were produced in 2015. Originally, “Rain” was to be a series of 60 prints, but being my first attempt at silk-screening, half of them didn’t make the grade. (misalignment, loose emulsion, finger prints, etc) They ended in the defect pile and most were cut up for drawing paper. These come from a small pile that were saved from that fate, now hand finished and possibly nicer than those that qualified.

Day 2 of the circus...
https://youtu.be/UO8uJsYKZhI

ANTI-WAR FESTIVAL The USF viewing room 3-20 Septe

ANTI-WAR FESTIVAL The USF viewing room
3-20 September
FESTIVAL PROGRAM - https://antikrigfest.org/

The festival consists of lectures, film screenings, performances, guided tours and workshops for schoolchildren as well as an ANTI-WAR exhibition with works by 26 artists. The exhibition brings together a very wide range of local and international artists; from Street Art to political performance, from expressive figurative painting to documentary photography, from poetic video art to pure propaganda.
IT IS ALL FREE AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME.
See artist list in comments..
@antikrigs_initiativet @wilpf @wilpf_uk @wilpf_finland @artsforpeace1 @wilpfafghanistan @wilpfnigeria @wilpfghana @youngwilpfaustralia @ikffworld

I managed to score a nice collaboration with the a

I managed to score a nice collaboration with the amazing artist, @chemisgraffiti. My pieces are on the fronts of his mobile phones and expand on the concept of 'being trapped in the digital box'.
Swipe to see the whole piece...

Thanks to @james__finucane for hooking me up with @helsinkiurbanart 💚💚🙏

#mrburns #excellent #surveillancecapitalism
#surveilance #animorphic #mobile #phone #datacollection #privacy #trapped #reflection #nature

A lot of new pieces hit the streets in Pasila, Hel

A lot of new pieces hit the streets in Pasila, Helsinki this week... 23 artists with a ~50-50 gender balance ❤️❤️
Check out @helsinkiurbanart for all the works... here's a little taste 🙂
@planbstreetart @chemisgraffiti
@ninjahart @vivmagia @balstroem @nameoner @tattoo_alijens @rame13_art @ruafestival @krotkrass @poppamaija

A new little outdoor exhibition prepared under the

A new little outdoor exhibition prepared under the watchful eye of a curious ferry captain. @tegson_ @vivmagia @yarro_john @afk_artworks

#compartmentalized #twentyfirstcentury #transnationalfascism #polarized #twitter ++

Yellow Ribbons 4 Assange. The history of the yello

Yellow Ribbons 4 Assange.
The history of the yellow ribbon is ancient and has been adopted by numerous causes.
Its most significant use is as a symbol of solidarity with someone who is far from home, and an expression of hope that he or she will return safely and soon. 🏡
Thanks to all the hands on board tonight, this campaign, #YellowRibbons4Assaange at Lille Lungegaardsvann, Norway, was quite literally, a stroll in the park.
After kl1500 today, supporters (anyone willing to get off the sofa for the greater good), are encouraged to show solidarity by taking a yellow ribbon from Lille lungegaardsvann (or making your own), tying it to a body part and posting a selfie with the tags #YellowRibbons4Assange #YellowRibbonDay.
The world needs more whistle blowers, and whistle blowers need our support. Hope to see some selfies put to good use🙏
PS – no artists or activists were hurt during the filming.

#YellowRibbons4Assange #YellowRibbonDay #SAKen #minuttforminutt #Lillelungegaardsvann #Bergen #Norway #pressfreedom #FreeAssange #DontExtraditeAssange #JulianAssange #WeAreMillions #FreeAssangeNow #WikiLeaksArt #IStandWithJulianAssange
@432hz_by_linlaga @phat_phunk @bjor.artworks @tus_putin @hassmatazz @thejuicemedia @RydeBergen @bringassangehome @support__julian__assange__ua @australiansforassange @courage_foundation @wermillions @embassycat @committeetoprotectjournalists @wlartforce @people4assange @viirani_ @AustralianLabor @AustralianGreens @government.uk @mojgov.uk @Erna_Solberg

Neo Nakba 2020 #annexation #westbank #bds #blm #H

Neo Nakba 2020

#annexation
#westbank #bds #blm #Handala #Nakba
#claimingland #colonialism
#fasces #benjamin #netenyahu #trump #jaredkushner #21century #apartheid

"100% Vegan" - not me... the cow. #sadcow #raisec

"100% Vegan" - not me... the cow.

#sadcow #raiseconsciousness #lovethyfellow #milkshake #veganism #veganrecipes #vegetarianism #meatfreeworld
#streetartbergen
#gatekunstnorge #streetart #AFK #afkstreetart

Captain of the kakistocracy. #trump #usa #downthed

Captain of the kakistocracy.
#trump #usa #downthedrain #kakistocracy #kakistocracy🇺🇸 #streetart
#streetartbergen #streetartnorway #gatekunst #afkstreetart

'Hug the world' - print release 15th of Juni, kl15

'Hug the world' - print release 15th of Juni, kl1500 CEST.
For more detail pics check out my website.

Black Lives Matter #blackouttuesday

Black Lives Matter #blackouttuesday

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