Report by Sandshoe

I’ve not heard of The P?pli Kids before and picked up this up from Facebook. From the wall of a community activist in Cairns. Rumour seems to have it the Kids are in Townsville. I say rumour because rumour seems hip.

Myself, honestly, I’m trying to work out just where they do fit in, spring from. I just watched this vision and it blows me away for its creativity and the insight it gives so what’s the go with cans of paint and explosive dance mixes, getting together and inhabiting spaces in the street.

Walking around alleys and behind the facades of grey cement and cream sandstone, red brick and cement mortar joined-up buildings, you know there is rarely anybody going to be there in the first place in these dirty corners of industrial waste and urban land some of us walk around to see and which comes first…the paint cans or the waste. It is all waste until it is used. It is all abandoned until reclaimed, ordered in some way, lit, made visible, painted, inhabited, displayed.