FBi's Canvas

What do you think artists do these days? Painful long performances, minimalist paintings or disorienting assemblages of weird objects. Art is, on the whole, something so detached from daily life that artists think an essay will get it back into our lives. Mickie Quick is something quite different. He's a culture jammer, a street artist and a mainstream media producer. He's part of Squatspace, and the Network of Uncollectable Artists (NUCA), he was behind Channel Ten's Guerrilla Gardeners program, he runs the Big Fag Press printing house and a bunch of other projects. In many ways, his art is so connected to daily life that it hardly feels like art at all.