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Darren: There's a few artists and designers resident at Banky's current exhibition—Dismaland—who wanted to do something about the DSEI arms fair. I'm working there with my Pocket Money Loans installation, which is a payday loan shop for kids. But I took a break from giving children advances on their pocket money at 5,000 percent APR to help. Strike! magazine have a stall here and they've been distributing these bus stop adshell hack packs with the Special Patrol Group—a sort of shadowy militant wing of Strike! magazine—which give demonstrations to the public on how to break into advertising space. Along with the Museum of Cruel Designs—an arms-trade exhibition at Dismaland—they thought it was a good idea to put the two things together. So we designed the posters and the SPG and their small army of volunteers took them to London.
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A lot of the posters are pointing out very under-reported or ignored facts about the UK's hypocrisy when it comes the arms trade and what we supposedly believe about democracy and not murdering people all the time. It's completely perverse that our government wrings their hands and bleats half-convincingly about all the terrible conflicts which kill and displace millions around the world, but then simultaneously signs off on weapons and ammunition sales to those exact same regions, often arming both sides in the same conflict.
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I think there's a lot to be said about disrupting the monotony of the daily commute for its own sake, even better if you can do it about something worthwhile. The arms dealers who are currently slithering through London would much prefer their horrible conference to pass by without any real scrutiny. By doing something like this, we're able to draw commuters attention to the fact that some of the world's worst dictatorships have come to London to pick out their preferred instruments of torture and murder.
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Anything that takes corporate advertising off the streets is a good thing. Our public spaces have been privatized so that only institutions or individuals with large advertising budgets are allowed to have truly free speech. The ad space hack packs are a great way of democratizing these places where we spend large parts of our day.

Adverts are pollution, visually and psychologically. Replacing them with art is an act of tidying up.Thanks Darren.Visit Darren's website: Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives.Follow Philip on Twitter.