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PERU ANA – ANA PERU chair

I’ve seen the tag “PERU ANA – ANA PERU” around my neighborhood quite a bit. The other night, I found this right around the corner from my apartment.

PERU ANA — ANA PERU tag on a chair left for garbage pickup

An extreme case of the value/effort/ephemerality balance of street art — a really fun, unique, and perhaps powerful presentation, but of course it will only last until the garbage is picked up the next day.


11 Comments

awesome. very glad you liked the chair.

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Posted by peru ana ana peru on 22 September 2007 @ 7pm

Hi:

I see you have been following the Ana Peru Peru Ana tags around the city and I wanted to know if you had any idea how to meet with her. I would prefer not to have to join Myspace, I don’t like social sites.
If you get to meet her, could you ask her what is the best way to meet her? I’m trying to write a story and wanted to see if she is interested in participating.

Thanks
AC

Posted by AC on 8 October 2007 @ 11am

peruanaanaperu AT gmail DOT com

Posted by peru ana ana peru on 26 October 2007 @ 11am

I’ve also seen some Peru Ana, Ana Peru tags in my neighborhood in the East Village. I’ve seen it on the door to my building, on the wall of the bakery I go to to get my coffee each morning, and on some of the beautiful stoops on my block. This is not art. Its disrespectful litter all over my neighborhood. I have to see Peru Ana, Ana Peru at least 5 times on my way to work and on my way home. Why do you have to tag doors and buildings? How is this fair to the people who live there who want to keep their neighborhood beautiful? If I see anyone tagging that name again on my street expect a kick in the ass. Where do you live? Can I spray paint my “art” on your walls and door?

Posted by Tim on 16 November 2007 @ 11am

Based on what I’ve seen I’m not impressed at all by these wall scratchers. Maybe try flipping burgers.

Posted by WTF do you know about film on 22 January 2008 @ 1pm

ha! burgers! we love burgers!

Posted by peru ana ana peru on 10 March 2008 @ 5pm

everyone is a f*#&ing critic.

Posted by abandonview on 24 March 2008 @ 8am

I feel as if this Peru Ana Ana Peru thing is monumental. Tim, my friend, whoever you may be, open up your mind a wee bit. Maybe understand beauty for what it is, and to be completely honest isnt beauty in the eye of the beholder. i guess i just pity you. I wonder if you know that the lower east side hasnt been beautiful since the the 60′s. Brooklyn is now what manhattan has failed to keep up. but thank you, for your criticism of the filmmaker magician/s. I wonder who they are, i hear they were masks everywhere they go. Fucking weirdos.

Posted by Charlie Twinkle Nuts on 15 May 2008 @ 4am

PAAP is so deep. her thoughts are very original. she must be a genius.

Posted by Chuck Norris on 3 June 2008 @ 6pm

i’m all for street art and all. but i see a lot of simple tags. peru ana ana peru. i thought it was some revolutionary vibe at first and am honestly disappointed to read that it seems to be one person? who is an artist? wheres the art man?!
the tags are just simple letters, are there any murals or bigger installations worth checking out anywhere?
call me a nerd, i just dont see the statement made in a black print name written on the steps of an L stop

Posted by 13th and A on 30 March 2009 @ 9pm

Peru Ana -

Instead of putting up PoMo crap quotes like “Film does not equal Cinema” or “Save Cinema,” how about actually saving cinema by creating and showing us not a video (video arts does not in any way equal cinema, film, or short film) but a really impressive short or full length film. All I have seen from you guys so far are bad attempts at video art. Video art again does not equal cinema. Video art is no art at all actually. Video art are for frustrated and talentless wanna-be filmmakers who doesnt have the balls to finish a decent short or film. I dont think you could call yourself a filmmaker or an artist if you limit yourself to making video art, especially the kind that devotes ten minutes or so to an armless man masturbating with his shadows. I see sensationalism and not art. Peru Ana Ana Peru, if you are genius as you described yourselves to be, show us genius and not tags on decrepit sofas and half-baked attempts at cinema-making (since u dont wanna call it film).

Posted by IMELDASINATRA on 10 September 2009 @ 9am

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