Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggsis an American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. Skaggs is one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. Skaggs has used Kim Yung Soo, Joe Bones, Joseph Bonuso, Giuseppe Scaggioli, Dr. Joseph Gregor, and the Rev. Anthony Joseph as aliases...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
CountryUnited States of America
media voice hoaxes
I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.
artist ideas people
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
believe
What do we believe? Why do we believe it?
jobs media premises
The media's job is to question a premise.
fake-people important stories
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
thinking fool fooled
It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
artist difficult loved painting realized seriously taken
I loved painting and sculpting, but realized how difficult it was for a young artist to be taken seriously by the art establishment.
building east fifty foot fun grotesque hung liberty placed poke statues street treasury village wall war workers
In 1969 I hung a Fifty Foot Brassiere on the US Treasury Building to poke fun at leering Wall Street workers and placed grotesque Statues of Liberty in Astor Place in the East Village as a war protest.
attempted burn bus central cultural exchange hippie nativity organized park protest queens satirical tour vietnamese village war
In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.
built comment dragged four hypocrisy inhumanity protest street
In 1966, I built a crucifix and dragged it down the street on four consecutive Easters to protest man's inhumanity to man and to comment on the hypocrisy of the church.