User:AGEve/"Festival Sticker Art"

"Festival Sticker Art" is the name of an organisation that provides high volume sticker art at festivals. FSA is Sticker Art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticker_art  with an emphasis on three dimensional approaches to making with stickers, mostly at festivals, making things using self-adhesive on-roll labels that would otherwise be buried in landfill. The organisation of an FSA event is a form 'Community Art' or 'Concrete Opera' ([] University of Sussex, May 1971). FSA is a specialised sub-category of 'junk art' or 'recycled art' which links back to early 20th Century modernism and ideas of the found or transformed object as practiced by Picasso, Braque and Marcel Duchamp, though it also links with community art, public art, performance art, environmental art, concrete poetry and happenings.

History

FSA started in children's area of the Cropredy Fairport Festival in 2002, in association with "Les Bicyclettes" theatre group. http://www.festivalstickerart.com/the-history-of-festival-sticker-art-or-concrete-opera/ ] Sculptural sticker art has since spread to other festivals, (http://www.wikifestivals.com/wiki/bestival) and events in the UK. FSA differs from other forms of sticker art because of the volume of labels used.