Joey Skaggs Quotes

The media's job is to question a premise. - Joey Skaggs

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and maneuvered. - Joey Skaggs

The media became not just a vehicle to get attention about an event, but a medium in itself, to be shaped and molded and instilled with my social-political agenda. - Joey Skaggs

The issues of my performances vary, but most of the questions buried in the work remain the same. - Joey Skaggs

Technology and consciousness are evolutionary and co-dependant. Change is inevitable. Where it leads will always be a great curiosity. - Joey Skaggs

So the fact that the media all jump on a story in a similar fashion is not surprising. The opposite, when a voice cuts through to say something different or original, is surprising. - Joey Skaggs

So I began doing confrontational, iconoclastic performances, bringing my artwork into the public arena, like the Easter Sunday Crucifixion in 1966, which started when I dragged a 200-pound ten-foot-tall sculpture depicting a decayed figure on a cross into Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side. - Joey Skaggs

Sensationalism gets them every time. - Joey Skaggs

Satire and believability are irresistible to the news media. - Joey Skaggs

Revelation is the most important aspect of the process. That's the point where consciousness can change. - Joey Skaggs

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