I belong to the Involuntary art movement/Fbook group(s) started by artist/critic Millree Hughes and poet/artist Paul Conneally. It’s like found art, except the art only comes into our awareness when recognized and photographed in the ‘Gallery of the Street’. It can’t be bought or sold (although the photos can), is transient (here today, gone tomorrow), generally urban (though not exclusively) and unintentional but always with human involvement. For example, a piece of graffiti would be considered voluntary, but if a new ‘work’ was the unintentional product of years of graffiti layers, that would be IP. Blocked-out graffiti, often done with mix-matched paint, can also have splendid, involuntary results. The serpentine patterns of hardened adhesive left where signs have been removed, or the collages created when layers of posters have been put up and ripped down are all genres of IP.
There is currently an exhibition in Mexico City’s Hidalgo Metro Station of our collective, anonymous works, curated by Millree Hughes and Aldo and Yardley Flores of Salon des Aztecas, which runs for the whole of 2020.
