O.K. I have to be truthful. While I was researching for the presentation, I was exposed to several piece of activist art. So much so that I forgot all about this blog. But instead of going to the AIDS posters I have reverted back to the humor side of art. Check out the Gorilla Girls. Yes I know who they are, but only because of this http://www.guerrillagirls.com/posters/SameSexMarriageandVoterIDMinnesota.shtml
A political friend told me the Gorilla Girls depiction of Michele Bachmann was terrible. So I had to check it out. I am sure my conservative friend thought it was terrible, but I thought it hilarious. The argument for the depiction is that the statement really gets the point across. We are not ALL equal. In this case the target audience were the people in Minnesota, who had to decide on an amendment which would define marriage. The measure did not pass. Michele Bachmann has become the icon for conservativism and the use of her image and statement gained a lot of attention from the far right to the far left and almost everyone in between.
As for the syntactical indeterminacy the billboard was most certainly creative and dramatic and clearly left up to the viewer if it were humorous or "mean". The words in the poster are catchy, pink, bringing to mind "girl", or in this case Gorilla Girls. Art is in the eye of the beholder.
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