Babel - theme: rabble

The word rabble suggests an identification with, or criticism of popular culture or "the masses" (the rabble). It also suggests a theme of social justice: which Wikipedia says is about giving individuals or groups their due within society as a whole.

Laurie Ljubojevic's work, shown here, where she uses newspapers, found posters, or money as the substrate for her dots, comments on popular culture, the media, commodities, money, etc. Billy Mavreas' work where he rips and mixes found materials works that way, as do Nate Larson's paranormal parodies. Joey Dubuc's child-like narratives are full of both hi and low art/pop culture references, as is Joni Murphy's poetry, John Richey's animations, Melisandre Schofield's imaginary school of personas, and Adrianna Riquer Turner's "pinatas." My own His Master's Voice dog and gramophone cartoons fall loosely into this category also.

btw Rabble.ca is a Canadian social justice-oriented news website. Those folks incidentally run a community bulletin board called babble.

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