A street art exhibition in Digbeth is hoping to spark conversations, and get people thinking about the issues currently facing society.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 The expedition's called Art of the Street,
00:08 and under title of The Broken Crane.
00:10 What the piece is titled is Shouting at the World.
00:14 And what our piece is about, Nick,
00:16 is basically bringing graffiti artists and bringing them
00:20 together, bringing collections together,
00:22 bringing local painters together,
00:24 and giving them a space.
00:25 Our space is also about sending messages.
00:28 We are mixing light, sound, immersive theater
00:32 with graffiti and a gallery.
00:35 There's no concept.
00:38 And that's what we like to think.
00:39 We're creating a new space, but a space that will hopefully
00:43 do some good, but a space for everyone.
00:47 With regards to how our work connects to social issues,
00:52 basically we have pieces that are displaying messages
00:55 like we can fund a war, but we can't feed the hungry.
00:59 These are messages that I find are so
01:01 important to today's society.
01:04 We have other messages like the Ukraine piece,
01:08 the sort of walled off Banksy room.
01:10 It gives you a little bit of a history
01:12 other than the piece of artwork.
01:14 But what we are wanting to do is yet again
01:17 is send them messages, is bring that pure plight
01:22 of a lost society.
01:24 We want to give them a voice.
01:25 They can come here.
01:26 It's free.
01:27 Anyone can come here.
01:28 Our artwork connects to people on many levels,
01:31 whether it be inspiration, expression.
01:35 And our artwork will send messages.
01:37 Hopefully, hopefully then when you
01:39 leave the space, these messages will help you make
01:42 you think a little bit different.
01:46 Some pieces we have local guys.
01:48 We have the likes of Moe's, Hoaxer, Lisk, Misfit, Chunks.
01:54 These are all high end, very professional graffiti artists,
01:59 graph artists, artists in general.
02:02 People who use a can with magic air
02:05 to create a piece that looks like it's
02:07 done by a Renaissance artist.
02:10 If we don't have art, what do we have?
02:13 We have no voice.
02:14 Yes, we have poetry.
02:15 Yes, we have books.
02:17 But yet again, people like myself
02:19 are incredibly dyslexic.
02:21 We find books and that incredibly painful to read
02:26 might be a word.
02:27 But with art, you can absorb it.
02:29 You can create your own issues.
02:30 You can create your own images.
02:32 You can take away from that what you want.
02:34 You can create a whole world around a piece.
02:36 And that, for me, is what makes art so special.
02:39 Art of the Street is based at Centrella in Digbeth,
02:42 the custard factory.
02:44 The heart and the soul of graffiti is Graffiti City.
02:47 And that's due to the beautiful people of the custard factory,
02:50 like Benny Green, et cetera, and Zellix,
02:52 providing us all space to paint.
02:54 If you arrive between Wednesday and Saturday
02:56 in the hours of 12 to 6 at Centrella in the custard
02:59 factory, hopefully you'll have an experience like you've
03:02 never experienced before.