Genevieve: Time to go, John

Dominic Allen is a politically active artist from Melbourne who makes billboard signage with his co-artist Miles Allinson to sell an ideology, not a product. His messages are satirical towards contemporary capitalist society, and serves to widen people’s acknowledgement and awareness of issues affecting how our country is ordered and encourage people to question, resist, protest and interfere with such structures.
Having access to billboards around Melbourne, this is Dominic Allen denying the fact that people cannot talk out on a broad scale on topics that resist the structures of Liberal politics. He takes the physical space of the world into his own hands and does so with utter genius. In a documentary about their billboards, Dominic expresses the irony of John Howard saying ‘a vote for Liberal is a vote for truth,’ and expresses his frustration with Australians conservatism and how we let our retard king dictate our lives by telling us who we are afraid of and why we’re afraid, and that when we do protest or speak out we are smugly practically told, ”..we should just shut up and go back to our room,” which is actually just installing fear in the minds of the vunerable to keep us quiet and so it is easier for them to control us and tell us they’ll ‘take care of it (not).’
These billboard creators have taken the opportunity to extend a message that has significance and importance yet has not been given the attention it deserves.

“Everyone knows John Howard lies, it’s whether we care or not.”
Dominic Allen

“It is not just important but urgent for us to become extremely troublesome citizens”.
Arundhati Roy- Indian stencil artist

www.dominicallen.com
www.timetogojohn.com/films.html