The Street Phantom

The Phantom performance Artist was first mentored by Caine One a.k.a. Edward Glowaski and was served the name of Caine Two.  Joey Krebs aka Caine 2 the artist authors concepts and intent which are subversively transgressive compelling as Commentary whose intentions engage and appropriates the cultural landscapes of the time as media. The artist practices cynicism in his intent to appropriate corporate digital media and events, at site-specific location, which are selectively chosen by the artist to become ones own theatrical palette for provoking Kultural commentary. Los Angeles Alternative Magazine Managing Editor Michele Knapp has interviewed Joey Krebs the Phantom Street Artist in critique as one of the six most progressive artists in their Dec 2-8 2005 Volume 5 no 1 issue. Krebs is discussed as a commentator who is considered this generation’s true iconoclastic rebel street artist. D’Art Magazine 2005 feature review of the Phantom Artist by critic Craig Stephen has been released as a periodical! Black Book Magazine featured Krebs transgressive performance in their Fall 2005 issue. Krebs cast himself as a simulacrum Andy Warhol counting a briefcase full of play money at the Warhol Retrospective held at MOCA Los Angeles. Black book Magazine followed with a feature which addressed Artist like Krebs who explores the relationship between the personality cult and art stars like Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, with Actors and Directors like Benecio Del Toro, Sofia Coppola, Vigo Mortensen, Spike Jonze and Musician Beck. Krebs motto is the world is his stage or canvas for social commentary and self realized scripts. Krebs appropriates the Deux Ex media machine as his palette. Krebs successful guerilla Protest Performance took place at the 72nd Annual Academy Awards. The addressed theme was a Hollywood Marriage, which wed Mr. BIG MONEY to Commerce a.k.a. the Film Ms. Culture as appropriate motifs. The event was theatrically acted out and staged to express a critical commentary of the Academy’s Major Self Congratulatory Multimillion dollar Event. The Bride and Groom’s Announcement was a metaphorical matrimony of Radical Protest politics wed to activism. The Union expressed Guerrilla Satire with critical irony: where else but at the Oscars can B.I.G. Money with Commerce and Cult-CHA (Film) be bedded. Come celebrate the anniversary of The Phantom Street Artist because don’t we all want to be fucked by BIG Money? His recent media work includes a special Project rights to residency with regard to the timely issue of Gentrification. The Artist authored a Book titled SOME-1 EL$E’S AMERIKKKA, a fictitious safe-book followed by successful situationlist advertisement campaign in City Beat Magazine… The Phantom Artist Krebs boldly assaults the language of Mass Media as artifice. Critiquing society and its culture in question, Krebs has chosen to capture the various spectacular image and languages of mass media with new representation in order to subvert the authority of the sign and its signification. Krebs diverse clandestine projects practice a tasteful form of Creative Mass Media Intervention casting himself as a lead in protest.  The work that Krebs has intentionally created in the Media and on the Streets, under the pseudonym, “The Street Phantom,” invokes a simple visual spray painted icon silhouette in order to provoke social discussion through usurping the streets as theater with urban myth, gossip and ritual. You have seen the work on the Album Cover of Rage Against the Machine and their MTV videos. http://www.drinkable.com/losangeles/joeykrebs/index.html
Krebs most recently authored and created a photo projection piece at the LA Cathedral in defense of those victimized and abused by the Roman Catholic clergy.