Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggsis an American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. Skaggs is one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. Skaggs has used Kim Yung Soo, Joe Bones, Joseph Bonuso, Giuseppe Scaggioli, Dr. Joseph Gregor, and the Rev. Anthony Joseph as aliases...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
CountryUnited States of America
appear project
To be successful, this project had to appear completely real.
hope people work
My hope is that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
artwork began bringing cross dragged easter figure lower park public sculpture square sunday
So I began doing confrontational, iconoclastic performances, bringing my artwork into the public arena, like the Easter Sunday Crucifixion in 1966, which started when I dragged a 200-pound ten-foot-tall sculpture depicting a decayed figure on a cross into Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side.
definitely pulling together
We're pulling something together that you definitely don't want to miss. Be there.
buried issues questions remain work
The issues of my performances vary, but most of the questions buried in the work remain the same.
dealing
I mean, who did they think they were dealing with?
easily fact fiction internet reliable source supposedly ubiquitous
I wanted to use the Internet because while fact and fiction are so easily manipulated and blurred, it has also become an ubiquitous and supposedly reliable source for information.
amazed amused people
I want people to be amused or amazed but fooled.
artist difficult loved painting realized seriously taken
I loved painting and sculpting, but realized how difficult it was for a young artist to be taken seriously by the art establishment.
building east fifty foot fun grotesque hung liberty placed poke statues street treasury village wall war workers
In 1969 I hung a Fifty Foot Brassiere on the US Treasury Building to poke fun at leering Wall Street workers and placed grotesque Statues of Liberty in Astor Place in the East Village as a war protest.
attempted burn bus central cultural exchange hippie nativity organized park protest queens satirical tour vietnamese village war
In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.
built comment dragged four hypocrisy inhumanity protest street
In 1966, I built a crucifix and dragged it down the street on four consecutive Easters to protest man's inhumanity to man and to comment on the hypocrisy of the church.
pay pray stay
You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.
god king oz universe wizard
King of the world wouldn't be enough. I'd have to be god of the universe (the Wizard of Oz would suffice).