Multimedia artist Joey Skaggs has been called everything from the World's Greatest Hoaxer to a royal pain in the ass. He's been threatened, assaulted, summonsed, subpoenaed, arrested, deposed, dismissed, trivialized, maligned, even thanked and praised. In fact, Skaggs is America's most notorious socio-political satirist, media activist, culture jammer, hoaxer, and dedicated proponent of independent thinking and media literacy.
What follows is a partial documentation of Joey Skaggs' conceptual media performance work. It is not all inclusive and it is not his life story. However it is intended to illustrate Skaggs' evolutionary process as an artist who uses the media as his medium. Hopefully it will serve as an educational tool for all media consumers.
Click on a hot spot in the image or a graffitti tag in the street to see more.
Retro = a retrospective of Skaggs' work with documentation dating back to 1966
Dogma = the artist's manifesto explaining what he does and why
Secret = what?
Comme = commentary, indepth articles, and links of interest
Rap = to arrange for a Joey Skaggs speaking engagement
Map = a guide to this Web site
Call = send an e-mail to joeyskaggs.com
Home = here
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NEWS FLASH!
* Muppets Revenge! Announcing the debut of
Mobile Homeless Homes
Monday, April 23, 2012, Joey Skaggs paraded his Mobile Homeless Homes prototype
to Goldman Sachs with by his troupe of costumed muppets including the
Fresh Juice Party band performing their original
"Mobile Homeless Blues" ballad, (lyrics)
Full story and photos here
Next: Skaggs and his Mobile Homeless Home will join the May Day Unity Rally
Union Square in New York, Tuesday, May 1st at 4:00 PM
Mobile Homeless Homes on Facebook
Mobile Homeless Homes press release
Mobile Homeless Homes flyer
* Coventry University Open Class in Creative Activism presents:
Guest Podcast - The Art of the Prank and Culture Jamming with Joey Skaggs
* Joey Skaggs: World's Largest Bra Record Should Be Mine, Huffington Post
Mark Borkowski muses on Joey Skaggs, Giant Bras and the Origins of Creativity
* Joey Skaggs was interviewed for The Antics Roadshow, Banksy's first television documentary. It aired following the TV premiere of his movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop, August 13, 2011 on Channel 4 in the UK. No air date for the U.S. yet , but...
Watch the full show here
* Mentiroso profissional, Quem Magazine, Brazil
* The art of the perfect prank, BBC News Magazine
* Check out The Artiness of Naughtiness BBC radio show produced by Rob Alexander, hosted by Toby Amies and featuring Joey Skaggs, among others. Aired Friday, April 1, 2011.
Listen to the mp3 here
* Visit Joey Skaggs' page on Facebook Comments are welcome
* Joey Skaggs' Art of the Prank blog is now on Facebook Comments are welcome there as well
* The Art of the Prank Blog, edited by Joey Skaggs, is now on Laughing Squid's Cloud service, and has changed Web addresses (from Pranks.com) to ArtofthePrank.com. Visit the site to update your bookmarks and/or subscribe for email/RSS updates!
* Joey Skaggs Introduces His Universal Bullshit Detector Watch -- No Bull!
It's Real and It's a Collectible!
Press Release
What the Media is Saying
The Bullshit Detector Watch on Facebook
* Joey Skaggs Library Reading Room
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, APPEARANCES AND EXHIBITIONS
* Bring Joey Skaggs to your city!
PREVIOUS EVENTS:
* Occupy the Truth: Whistleblowers Conference, Oakland, California
* John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
* Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, IULM, Milan, Italy
* The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture, New York, NY
* Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France
* ZKM Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
* Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
* Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, California
* University of Guelph College of Arts, Guelph, Canada
* 7a*11d 6th Annual International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, Canada
* Do Me! Performance Project, Toronto, Canada
* Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
* University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
* China Academy of Art / Shanghai Institute of Design, Shanghai, China
* Beijing Broadcasting University Beijing, China
* The Influencers festival in Barcelona, Spain
* Break 2.2 Festival and Symposium, Ljubljana, Slovenia
* Art Attack EACC Museum in Castellon, Spain
Attack Theater EACC Museum catalog text
* 20/20 Live Chat on ABC.com (pdf)
* Toyota Comedy Festival in New York, Skaggs performance
COMMENTARY AND INTERVIEWS
* April Fools' Day Gags No Laughing Matter To Some Professional Pranksters, Huffington Post
* Jumping the Snark, Mother Jonesprintable pdftext
* The New Pranksters, Wall Street Journalprintable pdftext
* Media Commentary on the Universal Bullshit Detector Watch
* The Globe and Mail, Article about Prankster Comedypdf
* The Media Manipulator (No, Not Santa!) Honolulu Weekly Cover Story
* RE/Search Pranks 2 Interview
Kid Stuff, LA Weekly Review of Re/Search Pranks 2
* Joey Skaggs, NY Arts Magazinepdftext
* The Well-Cooked Journalist, by Joey Skaggs, Dnevnik, Slovenia
Slovene Version pdf
* Gotcha!..., US News & World Report, Cover Story
* Hoaxes Without End, McSweeney's #8
* DUPED! When journalists fall for fake news, Quill Magazine
* If You Fool Us Once, Jail for You, The New York Timestext
* This Isn't Funny, by Joey Skaggs
* Cartoon about Skaggs from the Big Book of Hoaxes
* In Praise of a Liar, ABCnews.com
* Journalists Really Do Have an Agenda, The New York Timestext
* Justice in the Blood, Time Magazine
* Interview with Joey Skaggs, Visual Opinion (V0)
* The Art of the Con, by Joey Skaggs, Extra!
* Interview with Joey Skaggs, Fade to Black Comedy Magazine
* To more commentary
JOEY SKAGGS LIBRARY
* Reading Room
Books that Reference Joey Skaggs
Other Books of Interest
* Joey Skaggs Library aStore
SKAGGS' BULLSHIT DETECTOR WATCHES - GET 'EM WHILE THEY LAST!
