How we tried to save democracy through trickery, the first time

Using our first (2004) movie's publicity budget, as well as a rather large philanthropical grant, we bought a used radio truck and outfitted it as a fake Bush campaign bus. We wrapped the bus in some crazy imagery and a demented slogan, and added a "pollution generator" (fog machine), a retractable "oil rig" (the original antenna with oil-rig dressing) launching streamers of "oil" (streamers from a CO2 gun), a big video screen with animatronic Bush, and a whole wardrobe of costumes, including an orangutan suit and cowboy with gas-nozzle sidearms.

The art of mischief

We tend to reject the term "artists." Like ACT-UP's Gran Fury, our goals are political. We've never cared much what the art world thought of us — except when it's come with money, or when it's as wonderful as this article.
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