Protest Against Rape Culture


David Choe’s
Controversial Bowery Mural Targeted in Protest Against Rape Culture
The art world is protesting after David Choe bragged about a questionable sexual encounter.



The Bowery Mural, currently home to a controversial work by street artist David Choe, will be the site of an anti-rape protest and performance art piece titled “NO MEANS NO” on June 18. The high-profile street art location has come under fire for offering a platform to Choe, after he bragged about a sexual encounter that sounded anything but consensual.

The protest is organized by curator Jasmine Wahi, co-owner and director of the Gateway Project Spaces, and founder and director of Project For Empty Space, both in Newark. “This piece is intended to examine examples of violent and predatory misogyny,” reads the Facebook invite to the event. “Our aim is to provoke widespread rejection of the continued normalization of rape culture by bringing visibility to the topic.”



The performance will take place simultaneously at Union Square South and in front of the Bowery mural on Houston street, from 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The artwork by Choe was commissioned by Goldman Global Arts, a division of Goldman Properties. The New York real estate company has hosted a rotating display of murals on the site since 2008, featuring street art luminaries such as Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Os Gemeos, JR, Faile, and Maya Hayuk. (It’s worth noting that only three of the 21 artists so honored have been women, according to Bowery Boogie.)



“I’m so confused. How does everyone forget/ignore David Choe’s ‘rapey behavior’ (his own words circa 2014) and give him such a public platform?” wrote Wahi on Facebook June 5. “Wait, I’m actually not confused, we have a Grabber-in-Chief [Donald Trump]… Cool stuff #newyorkartworld for confirming and perpetuating the #rapeculture.”

Within days, word of Choe’s unsavory past was being reported on by the media. “There are hundreds of qualified muralists whom Goldman Properties could have chosen, whose contribution to the art world doesn’t include normalizing sexual violence,” wrote Caroline Caldwell for Hyperallergic.

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