On the 8th of February, students at Lancaster University staged a guerrilla art action on the main campus walkway. The radical artists hit campus early, suspending wallpaper canvass, containers full of chalk and permenant markers from the walls of the temporary construction hoardings that blight the campus. They are either long patches of dull grey or covered with blown-up pictures of bland all-white colgate smile graduates happily thrpwing morterboards in the air in anticipation of a future of austerity.


The area has heavy foot traffic throughout the day, so the action got a lot of attention. In hours, one hoarding was covered in an explosion of colourful spray painting and interesting, uplifting and random comments. Students stood on a foot ladder to perform peotry readings. Political comments began to spring up, the blands graduates gaining speach bubbles with comments like “lol i have no prospects” and more direct comments like “nick clegg gives good head, signed d. cameron” passing people left messages against the BPR, a re-structuring that will lay off admin staff and used the space to inform people of other actions.


In conclusion, it looks like a highly sucessful action so far, and hopefully students will now keep a piece of chalk in thier pocket when they walk to seminars!