Announcing the 2008 AAAFFFA
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Posted by Anne Elizabeth Moore April 22nd, 2008 |
I occasionally grow tired of theorizing about corporate culture and cataloguing its public if hilarious malfeasances committed in the name of publicity—I mean,who reads that stuff?—and so, on Thursday, April 17, I started a new project with the Anti-Advertising Agency’s Steve Lambert called the Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom. It’s a not-for-profit charitable arm of the organization, designed to oust advertising, marketing, and PR creatives from their careers. By offering them cash, a big party, and a giant, novelty check.
The 2008 Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom Award (AAAFFFA) aims to respond to the increasing commercialization of public space, human relationships, journalism and art by decreasing the number of individuals working in industries that directly support these goals.
We set up the fund ourselves, which believe me, is no mean feat on an income of around zero dollars. As artists ourselves, funding such an endeavor wasn’t a financially rational decision. And this is part of the point: the AAAFFF hopes to inspire others to behave in a similarly financially irrational manner—for the common good.
And you know what? The donations have already started rolling in.
Read more at the Anti-Advertising Agency.
April 22nd, 2008 21:48
Exciting project. People may wonder, “Is this a real change-making effort? Or is this a joke?”
Knowing Anne, it’s gotta be both.
I propose Pamela Anderson as the sugar momma who should bankroll the whole shebang. Anyone have an in with her people?
April 23rd, 2008 09:12
Hmmm, yes, I get that question a lot. I generally ignore it, unless I can think of a funny response.
There’s a fitting poesy to the notion that the 2008 AAAFFFA is currently bankrolled by the ad industry itself, but I believe right now it’s probably other art fans. And you know what that means: it’s still pure money!
Applications are due September 1.