Interview with Pascale Brunet, a spokesperson for Artung Ad Takeover.

Ceci n’est pas une pub is a collective platform that identifies artistic interventions in our public space. By sharing imaginative creations through an interactive map, we hope to encourage our streets to become as participatory, stimulating and human as our communities are.

With the help of some eye-catching place markers, our community-based map shows a wide variety of artistic inventions: Stencils, posters, flashmobs, graffiti, ad-jams etc... Anyone surfing the site will be delightfully pleased with the amount of creative and in-your-face art right in their backyards.

Along with our elaborate identification system, Ceci n’est pas une pub also digs a little deeper. It brings to light the current battle that’s being fought between private and public interests, not only within our streets but within our communities and minds. By opening spaces for collective discussion, we hope to deconstruct profit-based power structures and work towards issues directly affecting our communities like: The deportation of our friends and families, family and sexual violence, criminalization of poverty, privatization of the public services, the environment, police brutality...

Born out of a collaboration between individuals of various backgrounds, politics and artistic abilities, Ceci n’est pas une pub is dedicated to strengthening, enlivening and challenging the design of our public space.

For more information, visit http://cecinestpasunepub.net/en/about

This originally aired on Montreal’s CKUT 90.3 fm on the Off the Hour program. Tune in  17h-18h for Off the Hour, Monday thru Friday.